Almost Peaceful Critic Reviews

A gentle, sad and at times funny film in the best French tradition of high-quality cinema.Read the full review

Unlike any other film I have seen about the Holocaust. Read the full review

Succeeds as a delicately moving memory piece about a subject not often put on film: the process of moving on into ordinary life after surviving the Holocaust.Read the full review

There's something rather lovely about the mood and intentions of Michel Deville's French movie.Read the full review

It takes talent to make audiences care about ordinary people doing ordinary things, just as it takes guts to end a movie with something as corny as the sounds of children playing. Read the full review

It's a quiet film, shunning melodrama and political polemic. Instead, it opts for a human touch, conveying how a group of very different survivors come to terms with the past and plan a future in their own unique ways. Read the full review