LA VILLE EST TRANQUILLE
aka THE TOWN IS QUIET

Year: 2000
USA: Diaphana Distribution
UK: Artificial Eye
Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gerard Meylan, Alexandre Ogou, Pierre Banderet, Jacques Boudet, Pascale Roberts, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Christine Brucher, Amar Toule, Veronique Balme, Yann Tregouët, Jacques Pieiller, Frederique Bonnal, Jacques Germain, Alain Lenglet, Philippe Leroy, Farid Ziane, Danielle Stefan, Emilie Angelini, Margaux Tartour, Noe Tellier, Julien Sevan Papazian
Director: Robert Guediguian
Country: France
Languages: French (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 132 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains strong language and drug use
USA Release Date: 26 October 2001
UK Release Date: 19 October 2001


Synopsis

It is the story ...

...of Michele (Ariane Ascaride) who works at the fish market and whose only goal in life is to save her daughter Fiona (Julie-Marie Parmentier); from drug addiction...
...of Paul (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) who betrays his striking docker friends to become a taxi driver...
...of Abderramane (Alexandre Ogou), transformed by time in jail, who wants to help his brothers...
...of Claude (Pierre Banderet) who gets an audience only among extreme right militants...
...of Gerard (Gerard Meylan) whose attitude towards death (his own and others') is a mystery...
...of Paul's parents (Jacques Boudet, Pascale Roberts) who are retired and will never vote again...
...of Ameline (Veronique Balme), whose body gives off a sense of good health that she wants to pass on to others...
...of Sarkis who fights the grand piano of his dreams...

These individual, overlapping stories occur at the same time and in the same place - Marseille in the year 2000. Faced with an ever-increasing sense of meaningless and confusion, they testify that 'the town is not quiet'.