Full Time
classified 12A SPlease note: This was screened in June 2023
Laure Calamy races against the clock in this grippingly tense French drama from Eric Gavel.
Julie (Calamy) can’t catch a break. For a single mother raising two children in the suburbs of Paris but working in the city, the commuter train is a lifeline – and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Without the train, Julie can’t get to her job as the head maid at a five-star hotel – or to the interview for a better job she has lined up.
Out of desperation, she turns to neighbours and her own gutsy resourcefulness to get to work, barely making it back in time to pick up her kids before bedtime. Worse still: it’s only Monday. At breaking point, Julie soon finds herself bending the rules to stay afloat in a ruthless society.
Anchored by Calamy’s powerful performance, Full Time is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller assembled from the everyday obstacles faced by working parents everywhere.