Country: France
Year: 2018
Duration: 113'
Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs. Second episode of Brizé’s trilogy on the world of work, following La loi du marché and preceding Un autre monde, a harsh reflection on outsourcing, sacrifice, and workers’ struggles, led by an extraordinary Vincent Lindon.
Biography
film director
Stéphane Brizé
(Rennes, France, 1966) is a French director and screenwriter. After earning a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Rennes 2 Haute-Bretagne, he discovered cinema and audiovisual work during an internship at the France 3 studios in Rennes. He then began taking acting classes and directing his first stage productions while working as a television technician in Paris. His first works as a director date back to 1993, when he directed his first short film, Bleu dommage, followed by the medium-length L’Œil qui traîne (1997) and his feature debut Le Bleu des villes (1999). In 2009, with Mademoiselle Chambon, he began collaborating with Vincent Lindon, with whom he created a celebrated trilogy on the world of work, consisting of La loi du marché (2015, Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for Lindon), En guerre (2018), and Un autre monde (2021). His latest film is Hors saison (2023), presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bleu dommage (cm, 1993), Ada sait pas dire non (cm, 1995), L’Œil qui traîne (mm, 1997), Le Bleu des villes (1999), Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (2005), Entre adultes (2007), Le Nouveau protocole (cm, 2008), Mademoiselle Chambon (2009), Quelques heures de printemps (2012), La Loi du marché (La legge del mercato, 2015), Une vie (Una vita, 2016), En guerre (In guerra, 2018), Un autre monde (Un altro mondo, 2021), Hors saison (Le occasioni dell’amore, 2023).
Declaration
film director
“I’ve made this film to understand what lies behind what you see in various media that regularly go out to cover sporadic violence accompanying industrial unrest. And instead of ‘behind,’ it would be better to say “before.” What occurs before these sudden outbreaks of violence? What roads lead to it? Anger, nurtured by a sense of humiliation and despair, building over weeks of struggle, and revealing, as we will see, a colossal imbalance in available forces.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Stéphane Brizé. SCREENPLAY: Stéphane Brizé, Olivier Gorce, with the collaboration of Xavier Mathieu, Ralph Blindauer, Olivier Lemaire. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Éric Dumont. EDITING: Anne Klotz. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Valérie Saradjian. COSTUME DESIGN: Anne Dunsford. SOUND: Emmanuelle Villard, Hervé Guyader. CAST: Vincent Lindon, Jacques Borderie, Bruno Bourthol, Guillaume Draux, Jean Grosset, Valérie Lamond, Olivier Lemaire, Mélanie Rover, Sébastien Vamelle. PRODUCTION: Christophe Rossignon, Philip Boëffard for Nord-Ouest Films, France 3 Cinéma. CO-PRODUCTION: La Banque Postale Image 11, Cofinova 14.
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