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À plein temps

2021

Eric Gravel

Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Nolan Arizmendi ...

6.6

1,571

Drama Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"'À plein temps' is an intelligent and engrossing movie (...) Gravel's film unites quietly observed humanism and palpable tension and makes it work (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Gravel displays, with grim fascination, the strict surveillance of the modern workplace and the desperate ruses by means of which workers cope"	POS
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"The 'Mission: Impossible' of mother tales"	POS
United States	Maxwell Rabb Chicago Reader	"'À plein temps' offers a personal commentary situated against capitalism's anchors, and to this capacity, the film succeeds in showing how people struggle under the weight of their occupations and debt"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"It's a propulsively intense piece of filmmaking –at times a bit like watching a highwire chainsaw juggling act about to go horribly and catastrophically wrong"	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh The Wrap	"Calamy delivers a performance that is utterly present, physically and emotionally"	POS
Australia	David Stratton The Australian	"Julie's dilemma is expertly illustrated by both the actor and the director. The film is shot and edited with flawless precision (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Australia	Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald	"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 (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	William Repass Slant	"Julie’s escapist attitude bleeds into that of the film, making it little more than a competent thriller (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Josh Kupecki Austin Chronicle	"While it resonates with the larger themes of labor inequality, parenthood, job insecurity, and social unrest, it never loses the focus of what it is, which is one of the best thrillers of the year (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith The Wall Street Journal	"Steering clear of sentimentality or contrivance, Mr. Gravel succeeds breathtakingly in making us appreciate how much grit is contained in the Julies of the world"	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"An acutely relatable story that grips (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	K. Austin Collins Rolling Stone	"An urgent ode to worker solidarity"	POS
United States	Marshall Shaffer The Playlist	"Gravel finds the stylistic tools that can translate such scale into riveting cinema — and confer the kind of importance that the Julies all over the world deserve"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The film is a master class in reactivity, and Calamy manages it with perfect dramatic pitch (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"A breathless work, a human drama that very easily calls on our empathy, so perfectly does it recreate contemporary reality and echoes current societal issues"	POS

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