‘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
deadline.comMemories can’t be cancelled. The Boltanski family never celebrates significant dates, even their own birthdays; according to the narrator who leads us into this whimsical fantasy of post-war Jewish life, they live only for the present moment.
In May 1968, the present moment consists of riots in the streets and demands for the government to step down, although it is the utopian dreams on the posters slapped up on walls that embody the movement’s true spirit: “Beauty is in the streets!” “Banning is banned!”.
One of the Boltanski sons is out there at the Sorbonne with his wife, changing the world; the rest of the family are together in their house in Paris, where they like to huddle in one room, eating assortments of snacks on the bed while the revolution is televised.
In fact, the past is stuck in the house’s every crack. Knick-knacks from menorahs to playbills of Josephine Baker are jammed in every corner.
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