Between Two Worlds
Film details
| Film Title | Between Two Worlds |
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| Length | 106mins |
| Year | 2021 |
| Country | France |
| Director | Emmanuel Carrère |
| Actors | Hélène Lambert, Louise Pociecka, Steve Papagiannis |
| Language | French, English, German |
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Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women.
In this new role, she experiences financial instability and social invisibility first-hand. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity, strong bonds shared by these behind-the-scenes working women.
Although Binoche is the film’s star, her presence is smartly muted, allowing us time and space to discover the world as she does, and providing room for complexity in considering the ethics of his character’s work and of Carrère’s film itself.
★★★★
Certainly, this picture ticks plenty of social realist boxes. But there’s a satisfying added depth born out of the persuasively fleshed out performances and the focus on female friendship.
★★★
