Safe Conduct is gripping and appealing-and honest-in regard to that part of modern life it does treat, and that is no small matter.

| Feb 16, 2021

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2005

Controversial film about art under occupation

| Jan 19, 2005

[Director] Tavernier takes his time in capturing this time period - at the expense of a concise narrative and often the viewer's interest.

| Original Score: 2.25/5 | May 17, 2004

Tavernier's fatal flaw is letting the film bog down in studio politics and the filmmaking process, something which hasn't carried a "serious" film since The Player.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 8, 2004

Longer than 2 1/2 hours, there's too much to sort out and the confusion becomes annoying.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 23, 2004

Obsessively detailed and impeccably observed, the film is bursting with the stuff of everyday life and curious wartime anecdotes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2003

Alain Choquart's camera barely stops moving, portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving Conduct a perpetual sense of urgency.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 25, 2003

[While The Last Metro] was more melodramatic, confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions, while Tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 9, 2003

No one who loves French film (or movies in general) should miss it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 8, 2003

There's an epic here, but you have to put it together yourself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2003

Though it runs 163 minutes, Safe Conduct is anything but languorous. It's packed to bursting with incident, and with scores of characters, some fictional, some from history.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2003

["Safe Conduct"] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama, romance, tragedy, bravery, political intrigue, partisans and sabotage. Viva le Resistance!

| Original Score: A- | Mar 4, 2003

With a large cast representing a broad cross-section, Tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "His Girl Friday," maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 2, 2003

There's an excellent 90-minute film here; unfortunately, it runs for 170.

| Original Score: C | Feb 7, 2003

It might be 'easier' to watch on video at home, but that shouldn't stop die-hard French film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2003

You could love Safe Conduct (Laissez Passer) for being a subtitled French movie that is 170 minutes long. You could hate it for the same reason.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 6, 2003

Intense but sprawling...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 2, 2003

Tavernier shows us, in more ways than one, that le cin ma de qualit lives on.

| Nov 5, 2002

The best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism, and Bertrand Tavernier's oft-brilliant Safe Conduct ("Laissez-passer") wears its heart on its sleeve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2002