Safe Conduct
Empire Pictures Inc. | Release Date: October 11, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Safe Conduct -- a rangy, irreverent, episodic odyssey through French filmmaking during the Occupation -- is one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
This is one of those films that encapsulate most of its maker's key thoughts and feelings while also connecting us vividly to a fascinating past. No one who loves French film (or movies in general) should miss it. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
You would imagine a film like this would be greeted with rapture in France, but no. The leading French film magazine, "Cahiers du Cinema," has long scorned the filmmakers of this older generation as makers of mere "quality," and interprets Tavernier's work as an attack on the New Wave generation which replaced them. Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Superb -- Crammed with incident, and bristles with passion and energy. Tavernier treats his actors, every last one of them impressive, as an ensemble. Read full review
90
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
The cast could not -- one could almost say need not -- be improved. Read full review
90
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The movie is full of juices that give it a healthy, pungent flow. Read full review
90
TimeRichard Schickel
Comic, suspenseful, romantic. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Spacious, headlong entertainment. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderRichard Porton
The conduct of the French intelligentsia under Nazi occupation remains a tender topic, and the 2002 release of Bertrand Tavernier's film about two filmmakers who follow divergent paths through the Vichy years stirred intense controversy. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A remarkable and moving account of a part of the French experience that needs more remembering and less forgetting. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The details feel authentic: The empty Paris streets, the profanation of German anti-aircraft guns atop belle epoque buildings. And Devaivre's adventures provide high tension. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
A sprawling, semi-biographical account of two real-life filmmakers who both found work during darkest days the German occupation. Read full review
63
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Loving but overlong meditation on movies and the people who make them. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Essentially a dramatic reenactment of a generation's coping strategies. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Alternately frustrating and rewarding film. Read full review
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