A Mother’s Courage in Marseilles Survives Loves and Woes

Robert Guédiguian’s

The Town Is Quiet ( La Ville Est Tranquille ), from a

screenplay by Jean-Louis Wilesi and Mr. Guédiguian, penetrates into several tormentedly

interlocking lives in the city of Marseilles, while retaining a scenic

perspective on a deceptively peaceful cityscape. In the process, many of the

contemporary problems of the Western

world-racism, drugs, Read More