Almost Peaceful

The latest from veteran French director Michel Deville, adapts a Robert Bober novel about a Parisian tailor shop in 1946, and the predominately Jewish staff who tentatively rebuild their business and personal relationships. Proprietor Simon Abkarian takes on more employees than he can afford (including gentile seamstress Julie Gayet, whom he's sweet on), while his wife Zabou Breitman putters about, trying to provide a safe, happy environment for her children and coworkers (including Holocaust widower Denis Podalydès, whom she tries to seduce).