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‘The Safe House’ Review: Paris In May ’68 Sees A Bohemian Family’s Life Turned Upside Down In Lionel Baier’s Comedy – Berlin Film Festival
‘The Safe House’ review: Paris in May ’68 sees a bohemian family's life turned upside down in Lionel Baier's comedy – Berlin Film Festival
Grandpapa ( Michel Blanc) is a general practitioner, skilled with the deluded; we watch him handle an old woman, who claims to have put a spoon in her vagina to divert Chinese surveillance equipment, with remarkable tact. Reymond is a marvel as Grandmama, exuding a serenity that is the aftermath of survival; Blanc is equally good as Grandpapa, whose scrabblings under the table could seem ridiculous or pathetic — and are certainly written for laughs — but that he makes genuinely poignant. When the Boltanskis are obliged to welcome in a very illustrious politician seeking respite from the fracas outside, that circle closes; Grandpapa sits with the visitor in the shelter where he once hid from the Gestapo, remembering how Charles de Gaulle’s radio broadcasts from Britain sustained him.
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