The film’s visual style is breathtaking. It was shot originally in color and processed in black-and-white, creating a rich, gleaming chiaroscuro of wartime Paris’ cobblestone streets, lampposts, back alleys, rooming houses, barrooms and butcher shops of wartime Paris.Pamela Zoslov

Although the characters must remain in the shadows on their journey, A Pig Across Paris proves that perhaps the best way to elucidate on a country’s troubled, dark epoch is to use comedy and performance to provide the light.Nick McCarthy

Un geste de fureur, un crachat d’anar de droite. Certes, c’est aussi très drôle.François-Xavier Lacaille

— Tout ça est trop con.
— Qu’est-ce qui est trop con ?
— Est-c’que j’sais… Toi, moi. Leur guerre. Et puis le reste.

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