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  • 2023
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2023
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Famed author Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities....

Directed By: Emmanuel Carrère

Written By: Florence Aubenas, Hélène Devynck, Emmanuel Carrère

  • 2023
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2023
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 46 m

Between Two Worlds

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary Famed author Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities....

Directed By: Emmanuel Carrère

Written By: Florence Aubenas, Hélène Devynck, Emmanuel Carrère

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Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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83
Aug 14, 2023
Binoche gives a predictably excellent performance, embodying Marianne with just the right amount of elite obliviousness without ever turning her into a caricature. It’s touching to see her become more empathetic as the story progresses, even if eventually snapping back to her old ways was the only possible outcome.
By Christian Zilko FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 17, 2023
Carrère, wisely I think, doesn’t turn the film into a reformist anthem. Shooting in a semidocumentary style, he allows us to absorb, along with Marianne, the relentless accretion of injustices. He also gives us some of the most believable portraits of female friendship I’ve ever seen in a movie.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 7, 2023
Even when the film becomes something like a spy thriller, it never loses sight of its political themes.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 15, 2023
Between Two Worlds is freshest when it emphasizes its documentary-like qualities, such as the brief inserts of everyday scenes and locales shot by Philippe Lagnier without any guidance from the director. Less effective are traditional movie elements like Mathieu Lamboley’s score, which flirts too openly with Philip Glass’s style.
By Mark Jenkins FULL REVIEW
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Aug 14, 2023
Carrère — known primarily in Europe as a writer of nonfiction books with a literary twist — applies a mood of cool journalistic sobriety to Marianne’s scandalous discoveries. . . Less compelling is the sentimental crisis that plays out because of Marianne’s deception.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
40
May 27, 2022
Marianne may learn to “pass” for a cleaner – kind of – but she can never experience the precariousness faced by her subjects. Her idea that these people are entirely invisible is bogus from the get-go. The script wrestles with these problems but it simply cannot overcome them.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 16, 2021
Neither of the two worlds of the film’s English title is illuminated clearly enough
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cinéfrance Studios, Curiosa Films, France 3 Cinéma, Studio Exception, France Télévisions, Orange Cinéma Séries, Canal+, La Banque Postale Image 13, Sofica Manon 10, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Région Normandie
Release Date Aug 11, 2023
Duration 1 h 46 m
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Awards

San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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