Full Time
Grippingly tense...it's a propulsively intense piece of filmmaking - at times a bit like watching a highwire chainsaw juggling act.
Full Time
Julie (Laure Calamy) can’t catch a break. For a single mother raising two children in the suburbs of Paris but working in the city, the commuter train is a lifeline–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Without the train, Julie can’t get to her job as the head maid at a five-star hotel -- or to the interview for a better job she has lined up. Out of desperation, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to commute into the city for work, barely making it back in time to pick up her kids before dinner. Worse yet: it’s only Monday. Julie is at her breaking point and soon finds herself bending the rules to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. Anchored by Calamy’s powerful performance, Full Time is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller assembled from the everyday obstacles faced by working parents everywhere.
Genre
Drama,
Women and Film,
French Cinema
Runtime
87
Language
French
Director
Eric Gravel
Writer(s)
Eric Gravel
Cast
Laure Calamy,
Anne Suarez,
Geneviève Mnich
Awards:
Winner, Venice Horizons Award ~ Best Director, Venice Film Festival
Winner, Venice Horizons Award ~ Best Actress, Venice Film Festival
Nominee, Best Actress, Cesar Awards
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Considering how much of our days and nights are taken up in the workplace, it’s remarkable how rarely this is dramatized in the movies. People in films may hold jobs, but we do not often see how their lives might revolve around them. Perhaps the reason why is that audiences go to the movies to get ...
Played at
Royal 2.10.23 - 2.23.23
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