Synopsis
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...
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Cast
- Karin ViardFrance
- Gilles LelloucheSteve
- Audrey LamyJosy
- Jean-Pierre MartinsJP
- Zinedine SoualemAhmed
- Raphaële GodinMélody
- Fred UlysseLe père de France
- Kevin BishopNick, Le Boxeur
- Marine VacthTessa
- Flavie BataillieLucie
Recommendations
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NPR
Klapisch is a master of the half-biting, half-soothing farce, and he usually keeps the divergent tones in harmony. - 70
The New York Times
Paints an alluring picture of a pan-European cosmopolitan culture whose characters hopscotch from one country to another with hardly a second thought in a lighthearted floating party. - 60
Time Out
A Euro gloss on "Pretty Woman" suddenly turns into "Occupy Gaul." - 30
Village Voice
A feeble stab at topicality from that master of overripe Gallic melodrama, Cédric Klapisch. - 25
Slant Magazine
Cédric Klapisch settles for a mixture of bland obviousness and crudely manufactured drama.
