Full Time (À plein temps)

Directed by Eric Gravel (France, 2021, 88 min.). French with English subtitles.

The marvelous Laure Calamy (César Award–winning star of Antoinette in the Cévennes; Call My Agent; and My Donkey, My Lover & I) demonstrates the phenomenal range of her talents in this unique thriller about a single mother who lands an interview for a job that might offer a better life for herself and her two children. Julie must employ her considerable resourcefulness to get across town during a transit strike, risking her current job as a hotel cleaner for the promise of something better. Full Time earned well-deserved awards for Best Actress and Best Director at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

“Grippingly tense. It’s a propulsively intense piece of filmmaking—at times a bit like watching a high-wire chainsaw juggling act about to go horribly and catastrophically wrong. Calamy delivers a sympathetic, nerve-flaying, terrific performance.” —Screen International

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