Synopsis
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
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Cast
- Léa SeydouxKarole
- Tahar RahimGary
- Olivier GourmetGilles
- Denis MénochetToni
- Johan LibéreauTcherno
- Nozha KhouadraMaria
- Nahuel Pérez BiscayartIsaac
- Camille LelloucheGéraldine
- Guillaume VerdierBertrand
- Marie BertoMorali
Recommendations
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Zlotowski has turned in a beguiling film that impresses as much for its oddly specific and well-researched setting (the ragtag community of lower-grade workers at a nuclear power plant), as for the romance, and maintains impressive narrative and tonal control right up until an ending that falters just at the final hurdle. - 80
CineVue
Zlotowski's Grand Central is a fascinating film on an urgent and seldom-explored situation. - 80
Total Film
Seydoux again offers a frank turn, while Rahim and Ménochet add real class. - 80
The Guardian
Some critics have expressed reservations about melodrama and overworked symbolism, but I found it gripping, with an edge of delirium. - 60
Empire
A gripping if occasionally overwrought drama radiated by a standout turn from Seydoux. - 60
The Telegraph
[Zlotowski] creates a situation, casts it perfectly, and backs out of a fully achieved story. As drama, it’s coitus interruptus, with a Geiger counter doing the interrupting.
