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 equally high stakes and stressful. 

Full Time serves as a welcome entry into the canon of films about rendering women’s invisible work visible. Laure Calamy has an extraordinary ability to project warmth, as well as strength. Her character here is down but never out, no matter how hard life pushes her.

 Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama 
Original Language: French (France) 
Runtime: 1h 27m

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