New York Times
"[A] gently observed film....Mr. Deville's direction is clean, unfussy and to the point." 08/20/2004 p.E12Los Angeles Times
"[A] quietly impressive film....ALMOST PEACEFUL 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." 10/01/2004 p.E8 Chicago Sun-Times
"Several stories play out, some sad, some romantic. The horror of the war is just offscreen, just out of sight, still present in the memory of every character." 03/25/2005 p.11 Variety 8 of 10
Thoroughly charming... sad, gentle and funny in the best French tradition of high-quality cinema...
Village Voice 8 of 10
French director Michel Deville has managed to preserve the work's great virtues--the intimacy, discr - Leslie Camhi
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