The spectators of Ile-de-France are not likely to be disoriented by going to see Full time by Eric Gravel, with Laure Calamy which will be released on Wednesday March 16. Crowded RER platforms, metro, Parisian sidewalks in the midst of a transport strike… The film won the prize for Best Director and Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. The Parisian palace where Julie works is the only note of exoticism, but important, in a story at the heart of reality.
A single mother with two children, Julie travels back and forth between Essonne and Paris daily, where she works as a chef de rang in a palace. Between her team to manage, the nanny and her children, is grafted a transport strike which jeopardizes her plans to find a job corresponding to her legal qualifications.
In this social drama, Laure Calamy totally marries the infernal rhythm that this young woman undergoes, caught between her family and her work, thrown into a perilous situation. Eric Gravel films the city like a William Friedkin did for thrillers (French Connection), adapting it to the social. From this fast-paced life is born a suspense of everyday life.
In 1973, Gérard Pirès came out She runs, she runs the suburbs which dealt with a new urban phenomenon arising from new towns in the Paris region, with transport as the key. The tone of comedy, with Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin, turns to drama. It is the survival of a broken family in question, a naturalistic subject and treatment, but approached with a staging that sticks to the asphalt and the subway ramps. A Paris of the middle class, rarely felt so well on screen.
Urbanity is an eminently cinematographic subject. With social resonance, he finds in Full time its translation into a nervous camera, but one that favors static shots rather than movement, as if to mark the expectation that ultimately dominates in this ever-changing life. Very beautiful, very fair in its subject, its interpretation and its staging, Full time joins a series of exciting recent socio-political films, such as The promises Where Goliath. Immersive.
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Kind : Drama
Director: Eric Gravel
Actors : Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Genevieve Mnich
Duration : 1h25
Country : France
Exit : March 16, 2022
Distributer : High and short
Summary: Julie struggles alone to raise her two children in the countryside and keep her job in a Parisian palace. When she finally gets an interview for a position corresponding to her aspirations, a general strike breaks out, paralyzing transport. It’s all of Julie’s fragile balance that falters. She will then embark on a frantic race, at the risk of sinking.