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'Bertrand Tavernier's brilliant new film pays homage to film-making during the Nazi occupation ... remarkable and affecting ... The film's superb ensemble cast masterfully succeeds in presenting a riveting microcosm of France during the occupation ... By turns gripping, amusing, tender and heartwrenching, Laissez-Passer has all the earmarks of French cinema at its best.'
- Rachel Kaplan, MOVIES3
'...Tavernier triumphs...ambitious, enormously detailed portrait... With humour and subtlety, the film recreates a vision of an era... this vast fresco...packed with sharp incidental observations.'
- Sheila Johnston, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
'Immensely entertaining yarn about one of the most controversial periods in French film history - the early 1940's. Tavernier recreates wartime Paris with a zest and humour...'
- Geoffrey Macnab, THE INDEPENDENT
'Generous, witty, captivating... with Laissez-Passer, Tavernier has returned to one of his most personal, winning modes: the large historical canvas, such as LIFE AND NOTHING BUT, brimming with novelistic detail and lively minor characters... A robust tribute to the process of film-making...'
- Phillip Lopate, FILM COMMENT
'Fascinating...Tavernier's remarkable epic... an absorbing insight... A movie buff's treat... superb script... 'Tavernier (has) crafted a wonderfully rich tapestry of the French under siege. ...Laissez-Passer is about as compelling as they come... moving and riveting homage'
- Alan Jones, FILM REVIEW
'...an impressive World World Two epic...'
'A moving tribute...'
- Tom Dawson, TOTAL FILM
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