FULL TIME
(À PLEIN TEMPS)
Friday, October 14 – Truffaut Theatre – 8:20 pm
(Screening ends at 9:55 pm)
FICTION / DRAMA
FRENCH NEWAVE 2.0
Presented in Association with:
Be For Films
France Televisions
Music Box Films
Los Angeles Premiere | France | 2022 | Drama | 87 min | In French with English subtitles
Directed by: Éric Gravel
Written by: Éric Gravel
Produced by: Raphaëlle Delauche, Nicolas Sanfaute (Novoprod)
Cinematography: Victor Seguin
Film Editing: Mathilde Van de Moortel
Original Score: Irène Drésel
Cast: Laure Calamy (Julie), Anne Suarez (Sylvie), Geneviève Mnich (Ms Lusigny), Cyril Gueï (Vincent), Nolan Arizmendi (Nolan), Sasha Lemaître Cremaschi (Chloé), Agathe Dronne (Sophie),
International Sales: Be For Films
Julie’s in a race against the clock in Éric Gravel‘s kinetic second opus, Full Time, which presents the daily routine of a work-a-day mom as a high-stakes intrigue. Nervous, pulsing music building on the soundtrack, its heroine constantly running, the film almost plays like a thriller. But Julie is simply the single mother of two young children, living in the suburbs, with a very long commute back and forth to her demanding job as head chambermaid at a ritzy Paris hotel. She has a lot of balls to keep in the air to make it all work — convincing her nanny not to quit, making sure her ex sends child support payments on time, planning birthday parties, etc. That’s on a normal day, and not including tending the kids and the pressure she’s under at work. Julie no sooner lands an interview for a plum marketing job more suited to her professional and educational experience… when a general transit strike is announced. Everything grinds to a halt, obstacles multiply, delays and complications snowball… until it’s almost a matter of life and death. As Julie, Laure Calamy’s breathless, pitch-perfect performance keeps us on the edge of our seats from start to finish.
Writer/director Éric Gravel began his career with the short films Ce n’était qu’un rêve (2004) and Eau Boy (2007). He served as cinematographer on several episodes of the series Minuscule in 2012-13. He also worked as second unit director on that same series in 2006, as well as on the series Versailles (2015) and the feature A Breath Away (2018). In 2017, he wrote and directed his first feature, Crash Test Aglaé, about a woman who’s so attached to her job performing car crash tests that she decides to move to India to hold onto it. Gravel’s second feature, Full Time, premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, in the Horizons section, which is dedicated to more cutting-edge works, where it snagged both a Best Director prize for Gravel and a Best Actress Award for Laure Calamy, who is probably best known to American audiences as the character of Noémie on the much-loved Netflix series Call My Agent!.
