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At War

En guerre (At War)

2018

Stéphane Brizé

Vincent Lindon, Jacques Borderie, Bruno Bourthol, Valérie Lamond ...

6.4

450

Drama Two years back, the Perrin Industry Factory, 1100 employees, automotive supplier well known, affiliate to the German group Schäfer, signed an agreement asking to senior-managers and workers to accept a pay cut, in order to save the company in exchange of the promise to protect their jobs on at least the next five years. But then the company takes the decision to close. The workers, conducted by their spokesperson Laurent Amédéo (Vincent ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"Another stellar Vincent Lindon performance is the main reason to weather this stormy, strident portrait of industrial dispute."	NEU
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Increasingly captivating as the pressure mounts (...) [It feels] less like a workplace drama than the chronicle of a soldier in the heat of battle."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'At War' falls short of justifying its own existence (...) The problem with 'At War' isn’t its sincerity so much as the way it takes its central ideas for granted."	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Lindon elevates a movie just by being in it (...) Brizé does not land the ending (...) [He] delivers a shock that throws the entire movie off balance. To this viewer, it is a spectacular whiff."	NEU
United States	Lawrence Garcia AV Club	"Brizé’s favors vérité-style camera movements (...) and naturalistic acting (...) Although successful on its own terms, this approach eventually constrains the resonance."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The ending here is just ridiculous (...) It’s all about actors doing improv shouting in each other’s faces. This is film-making by megaphone (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"A story worth telling, well told (...) [It] builds an unfailing tone of veracity (...) The cumulative effect packs a wallop"	POS

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