Metacritic reviews

Safe Conduct -- a rangy, irreverent, episodic odyssey through French filmmaking during the Occupation -- is one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking.

This is one of those films that encapsulate most of its maker's key thoughts and feelings while also connecting us vividly to a fascinating past. No one who loves French film (or movies in general) should miss it.

The cast could not -- one could almost say need not -- be improved.

The movie is full of juices that give it a healthy, pungent flow.

Spacious, headlong entertainment.

A remarkable and moving account of a part of the French experience that needs more remembering and less forgetting.

The details feel authentic: The empty Paris streets, the profanation of German anti-aircraft guns atop belle epoque buildings. And Devaivre's adventures provide high tension.

A sprawling, semi-biographical account of two real-life filmmakers who both found work during darkest days the German occupation.

Loving but overlong meditation on movies and the people who make them.

Essentially a dramatic reenactment of a generation's coping strategies.