Laure Calamy

Anne Suarez

Geneviève Mnich

Nolan Arizmendi

Sasha Lemaître Cremaschi

Cyril Gueï

Lucie Gallo

Agathe Dronne

Mathilde Weil

Dana Fiaque

Marème N'Diaye

Olivier Faliez

Irina Muluile

Aymeline Alix

Carima Amarouche

Évelyne El Garby-Klaï

Céline Perra

Nazareth Agopian

Fabrice Abraham

Olivier Hardouin

Céline Le Coustumer

Guillaume Vincent

Michaël Assié

Laureen Morlin

Arnaud Maillard

Sandrine Deschamps

Manuel Husson

Corentin Schmidt

Robin Betchen

Florent Corlay

Apolline Denis

Maléna Perrot

Lucas Henaff

Grégory Frontier

Cyril Masson

Matthieu Méan

Arnaud Préchac

Stanislas Clément

Karine Valmer

Estelle Florin

Bastien Pujol

Philippe de Monts

Marie Courtel

Laurent Pons

Cédric Welsch

David Bensemoun

Romain Deloutre

Diane Falco

Anne-Sophie Marguerite

Christine Kay

Bô Gaultier de Kermoal

Romain Ogerau

Dominique Plaideau

Marina Saura

Joshua Mansuela

Eric Gravel

Mathilde Van de Moortel

Victor Seguin

Florent Lavallée

Dana Farzanehpour

Valérie Deloof

Marie Prual

Lucile Jacques

Sylvie Aid

Youna De Peretti

Thierry Lautout

Paul Sergent

Raphaëlle Delauche

Charline Le Sauce

Caroline Spieth

Geoffrey Coppini

Nicolas Sanfaute

Rista Dimovitch

Irène Drésel

Pierre Accolas

Elie Doublet

Corinne Blot

Drama

Thriller

À plein temps

Novoprod

France 2 Cinéma

Haut et Court

France

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This ought to be compulsory viewing for strikers and management alike. The fact that in the 21st century, we are still resorting to these antiquated sledgehammer tactics to deal with industrial disputes is frankly stupefying. Like they say about economic sanctions, they never effect the folks they are intended to, but the ordinary person on the street gets well and truly shafted. "Julie" (Laure Calamy) is one such person who is trying to juggle two-children single-parenthood with a shift job as the head chambermaid in a 5-star hotel whilst simultaneously trying to organise an interview with a market research company - her professional background - that will hopefully give her a better and more regular career and allow her to rely less on the increasingly wearying neighbour "Mme. Lusigny" (Geneviève Mnich) for childcare. The sense of exasperation felt by the woman throughout this film is palpable. You cannot help but feel sorry for her as she tries to juggle plates galore, keep a grasp on her sanity, keep her job, her temper and stay on the right side of her young children. Most of us who live (or have lived) in an urban area and who relied on mass transportation will appreciate just how poleaxing it can be to your entire life when the things stop running. Calamy's strong and engaging characterisation here offers us a really plausible look at what exhaustion that can cause really looks like. The ending has a redemption to it that has you leaving the cinema with a smile, but for the most part this is actually quite an uncomfortably effective look at how the actions of some - regardless of politics - can seriously screw things up for others. Surely the time has now come for locked doors, bread, water and white smoke?