Julie (Laure 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, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to get to work and barely makes it back in time to pick up her kids before bedtime. Worse yet: it’s only Monday. Julie is at her breaking point and soon finds herself bending the rules to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. 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.
“It’s a propulsively intense piece of filmmaking – at times a bit like watching a highwire chainsaw juggling act about to go horribly and catastrophically wrong.”
Wendy Ide
ScreenDaily
“a breathless work, a human drama that very easily calls on our empathy, so perfectly does it recreate contemporary reality and echoes current societal issues”
Fabien Lemercier
CineEuropa
Winner of Best Director and Best Actress
Venice Film Festival, 2021
Official Selection
The American French Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, 2022
Official Selection
Sacramento French Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection
Cork French Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection
French Film Festival UK, 2022
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