Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20227/10
Juliette Binoche is "Marianne", a woman looking for work after her marriage has failed and she is left pretty much broke. The employment agency recommends she becomes something along the lines of a "domestic apparatus operator" (i.e. a minimum wage cleaner). Talk about back-breaking work? Anyway, gradually she finds her feet and falls in with other, similarly situated, folks - notably the affable "Cèdric" (Didier Pupin) with whom she bonds a little (platonically), and "Chrystèle" (a strong performance from Hélène Lambert). It is the latter who manages to get "Marianne" a job cleaning the ferry between Portsmouth and Ouistreham where they work servicing the guest cabins - 4 minutes per cabin! Now I have used this ferry once or twice, so at this point the reality of the film - and of the really tough jobs done by these labourers (for that is certainly what they are) starts to kick in. They have a camaraderie and an esprit de corps that defiantly stands up to the pretty difficult working environment in which they must function. Lambert, especially, but Lèa Carne's "Marilou" and Evelyn Porèe's team-leading "Nadège" all contribute well to the general sense of just how hard these folks t
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Cast
- Juliette BinocheMarianne Winckler
- Hélène LambertChrystèle
- Louise PocieckaLouise
- Steve PapagiannisSteve
- Jérémy LechevallierEric
- Kévin MaspimbyKévin
- Faïçal ZouaFaïçal
- Arnaud DuvalM. Mathieu
- Didier PupinCédric
- Léa CarneMarilou
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- Emmanuel CarrèreDirector
- Emmanuel CarrèreScreenplay
- Hélène DevynckWriter
- Florence AubenasNovel
- Patrick BlossierDirector of Photography
- Mathieu LamboleyOriginal Music Composer
- Albertine LasteraEditor
- David GauquiéProducer
- Julien DerisProducer
- Olivier DelboscProducer
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