Dir/scr. Eric Gravel. France. 2021. 88 mins
A single mothers precarious balance of commuting and childcare is upended when an interview for a better job, one which might finally haul her out of her cycle of debt, coincides with a paralyzing transport strike. Call My Agent star Laure Calamy delivers a sympathetic but nerve-flaying performance as Julie, both a frazzled mum at the end of her tether and unflappable head chambermaid at a five-star hotel. Its a propulsively intense piece of filmmaking at times a bit like watching a highwire chainsaw juggling act about to go horribly and catastrophically wrong.
Propulsively intense
Full Time (A Plein Temps) is the second feature from writer and director Eric Gravel, his first was anothe…
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