Storyline

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.—NDNF

Plot Keywords

fight, loan, children, shame, negotiation, suspicion, bullet proof vest, brother in law brother in law relationship, business executive, debt, social worker, success, uncle nephew relationship, uncle niece relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, workshop, foosball

Short Review

Generous, sensitive and innovative. It is a film in which, in the widest possible sense, the personal is political.

Trailer

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