From the beginning, this film attracts you in, in its wake, your coronary heart pounding and throbbing – it is a film you expertise fairly than simply watch.

Author-director Eric Gravelle’s frantic drama unfolds over per week within the lifetime of divorced working mom Julie (performed fantastically by Laure Calamy), who works arduous as a maid in a luxurious lodge in Paris. A every day commute from her distant suburb to central Paris is made practically inconceivable by widespread public transport strikes, and shortly the challenges of juggling childcare with the tasks of labor, her social life, her funds, and her interviews for a brand new job start. the strain.

Actually operating from daybreak to nightfall to get to her job and get house in time to choose up her youngsters, you get the impression that Julie is about to interrupt down, although she manages to (principally) keep calm regardless of turning into increasingly exhausted. Cute. When she lastly lands a job interview for a job higher suited to her talent set, Julie has to stroll a really tightrope between protecting her present job, and sneaking round whereas calling on co-workers to cowl for her, as extra obstacles pile up in entrance of her.

Irene Dressel’s pulsating rating gained the César Award for Greatest Unique Rating, whereas Mathilde van de Mortel gained the César Award for Greatest Enhancing. The movie is Gravel’s second directorial foray, placing him on the forefront of France’s most promising new directorial voices, whereas confirming Laure Calamy as one of the vital gifted French actresses of her technology. It is no shock that it gained Greatest Director and Greatest Actress on the Venice Movie Competition: it is a good, energetic slice of life that can have you ever on the sting of your seat.

exit: Eric Gravel

championship: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Genevieve Menish