FULL TIME Friday 3rd February
FULL TIME (À PLEIN TEMPS) À PLEIN TEMPS À PLEIN TEMPS WINNER - 2021 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL (ORRIZONTI) - Best Actress, Best Director WINNER - 2021 LES ARCS FILM FESTIVAL - Cineuropa Award (Best Film), Best Actress In his second feature film, Full Time , French writer-director Éric Gravel transforms a week in the life of a working mother into a heart-pounding thriller. Laure Calamy (Sybil; My Donkey, My Lover, and I; Call My Agent) stars as Julie, a single mother of two who lives in the suburbs and commutes to Paris to work as head chambermaid at a five-star hotel. Over the course of the week we spend with her, everything that could go wrong does go wrong as she balances life and prepares for a job interview that can give her and her children a better life. We’re used to going to the movies to watch men do conventionally stressful male tasks – like fight a war — but the care work that women so often do is rarely acknowledged as equal...