The town is Marseille, and in Robert Guédiguian's epic ensemble downer, it is less quiet than steeped in calamity. A lonely taxi driver (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) forms a liaison with a fish worker (Ariane Ascaride), paying her for backseat quickies; she then uses the money to buy her daughter's smack. Guédiguian has an instinct for the buried shame of working-class squalor, but his film is inflated with a doom that feels programmatic rather than earned.
EW's GRADE
C+Details Release Date: Nov 09, 2001; Rated: Unrated; Length: 132 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin; Distributor: New Yorker
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