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The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.
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The Class
2008, Laurent Cantet, François Bégaudeau,Agame Malembo-Emene,Angélica Sancio,Arthur Fogel,Boubacar Toure,Burak Özyilmaz,Carl Nanor,Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi,Dalla Doucoure,Damien Gomes,Esmeralda Ouertani,Eva Paradiso,Henriette Kasaruhanda,Juliette Demaille,Justine Wu,Rachel Regulier,Laura Baquela,Louise Grinberg,Lucie Landrevie,Nassim Amrabt,Qifei Huang,Rabah Nait Oufella,Samantha Soupirot,Franck Keïta,Wei Huang,Anne Wallimann-Charpentier,Cécile Lagarde,Frédéric Faujas,Vincent Robert,Olivier Dupeyron,Patrick Dueruil,Dorothée Guilbot,Anne Langlois,Vincent Gaire,Yvette Mournetas,Julie Athenol,Jean-Michel Simonet,Olivier Pasquier,Stéphane Longour,Abdoul Drahamane Sissoko,Aline Zimierski,Silma Aktar,Marie-Annette Sorrente,Gilles Gourmelen,Frédérique Alles,Isabelle Lamrani,Marianne Auzary,Stéphane Leyvigne,Gaelle Bantegnie,Isabelle Mesplede,Valérie Benguigui,Gokmen Nalcakan,Jean-François Chauvet,Farida Ouchani,Christiane Dancie,Mario Fanfani,Fatoumata Kanteé,Cheick Baba Doumbia,Lingfen Huang,Wenlong Huang,Khalid Amrabt,Adeline Fogel,Sezer Özyilmaz,Céline Spang
Arthur Rambo
2021, Laurent Cantet, Sofian Khammes,Rabah Nait Oufella,Antoine Reinartz,Anaël Snoek,Aleksandra Yermak
Time Out
2001, Laurent Cantet, Aurélien Recoing,Karin Viard,Serge Livrozet,Jean-Pierre Mangeot,Monique Mangeot,Nicolas Kalsch,Marie Cantet,Félix Cantet,Olivier Lejoubioux,Maxime Sassier,Elisabeth Joinet,Nigel Palmer,Christophe Charles,Didier Perez,Philippe Jouannet
The Workshop
2018, Laurent Cantet, Marina Foïs,Matthieu Lucci,Florian Beaujean,Mamadou Doumbia,Mélissa Guilbert,Warda Rammach,Julien Souve,Issam Talbi,Olivier Thouret,Charlie Barde,Marie Tarabella,Youcef Agal,Marianne Esposito,Thibaut Hernandez,Axel Caillet
Foxfire
2013, Laurent Cantet, Raven Adamson,Katie Coseni,Madeleine Bisson,Claire Mazerolle,Rachael Nyhuus,Paige Moyles,Lindsay Rolland-Mills,Alexandria Ferguson,Chelsee Livingston,Tamara Hope,Rick Roberts,Briony Glassco,Ali Liebert,Gary Reineke,Ron Gabriel,Ian Matthews,James Allodi,Brandon McGibbon,David Patrick Green,Jonathan Higgins,Nakita Jones,Kent Nolan,Joey Iachetta,Joris Jarsky,Michelle Nolden,Victoria DiGiovanni,Rob Stewart
Return to Ithaca
2014, Laurent Cantet, Isabel Cristina Santos Téllez,Jorge Perugorría,Fernando Hechavarría,Néstor Jiménez Rodríguez,Pedro Julio Díaz Ferrán
