#ESCAPE FROM LAVILLE HINTS MOVIE#

I have JUST seen this film - literally an hour ago and was curious to come to IMDb and see what others thought because I really knew very little about this film before I went to see it. Title (Brazil): 'A Cidade Está Tranquila' ('The Town is Quiet') The direction and the performance of the cast are outstanding, and the soundtrack is excellent, highlighting Janis Joplin singing 'Summertime' and 'Cry Baby'. I do not know if Robert Guédiquian wants to give some hope to the viewer, with that boy magnificently playing the piano he has finally bought in the end, but I found the story very bitter and pessimist. The title 'The Town is Quiet' is very ironical and unfortunately the plot shows reality. There is one particular scene that really touched me, when Michèle comments that only books have happy end.

#ESCAPE FROM LAVILLE HINTS MOVIE#

This movie is about ordinary people and touches in serious wounds in most of the worldwide societies, like unemployment, drugs, violence, crime, prostitution, prejudice against immigrants, loneliness, racism, low salaries, corrupts politicians. The lives of these characters are interconnected along the story. Abderramane (Alexandre Ogou) is a black man who left jail and has an affair with a bourgeois. Gérard (Gérard Meylan) is a mysterious owner of a bar. Paul (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is a stevedore, who betrays his colleagues and the union in a strike and buy a taxi with his indemnity. She supports her family, composed by her unemployed husband, her addicted daughter Fiona (Julie-Marie Parmentier) and her granddaughter Ameline. In the contemporary Marseilles, Michèle (Ariane Ascaride) is a worker in the fishing market.

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