A. O. Scott - Polite Society

AO Scott is a cinema reviewer for the New York Times.

In reporting on a Holocaust movie, A Secret,



he has this to say:

Instead, he learns from their friend and neighbor Louise, as she gives him massages and vitamin treatments, that Maxime and Tania and their families were terribly damaged by the terror and bigotry that overran Europe in the 1930s
and ’40s.

and

Tania, a former model and an expert diver..and Maxime, who puffs up with French patriotism, seem to be in flight not only from the Nazis and their spouses, but also from the inconvenient fact of their Jewishness.

.

So, genteel.