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...
Acting
Karin Viard's volcanic, wounded center
Direction
Klapisch balances satire and genuine pathos
Writing
The delicious cruelty of the factory reveal
Director
Cédric Klapisch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released post-2008 crisis, the film channels real French factory occupation protests that made global headlines.
Klapisch deliberately contrasted Dunkirk's gray industrial decay against Steve's glass-walled Paris luxury—shot in the actual BNP Paribas trading floors.
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