2018
Not Rated
Strand Releasing
1 h 53 m

2018
Not Rated
Strand Releasing
1 h 53 m

Summary La Ciotat, the South of France. Antoine attends a summer writing workshop in which a few young people have been selected to write a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The creative process will recall the town’s industrial past, a form of nostalgia to which Antoine feels indifferent. More concerned with the fears o...

Directed By: Laurent Cantet

Written By: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet

2018
Not Rated
Strand Releasing
1 h 53 m

2018
Not Rated
Strand Releasing
1 h 53 m

The Workshop

Name: The Workshop
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2018-03-23
Duration: 1 min 53 s
Rating: 74
Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean, Doudou Masta, Mélissa Guilbert

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

6.3

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Directed By: Laurent Cantet

Written By: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

73% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews

73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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The New York Times

Mar 22, 2018

It’s a measure of this film’s stealthy brilliance that it blurs the line between empathy and exploitation.

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Screen Daily

Mar 19, 2018

The Workshop conveys a stunningly authentic portrait of French youth today; their class, racial and occupational concerns.

By Dan Fainaru FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Apr 5, 2018

The trappings are thriller-ish, but the playing field is recognizably timely: a fast-changing economic/cultural world in which some youth are up for the challenge to reconcile a vanished past with a roiling present — France's terrorism woes are explicitly referenced — while others are dangerously indifferent to it.

By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

The Guardian

Mar 19, 2018

It’s a film which demonstrates that debate, the exchange of ideas, can be as thrilling as any ramped up action flick.

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TheWrap

Mar 19, 2018

Though the film occasionally assumes the airs of a slow-burning thriller, the overall product remains a firmly intellectual exercise.

By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW

The Telegraph

Nov 21, 2018

While it's possible to fantasise a truly explosive, riskily disturbing version of The Workshop, that simply wouldn’t be what its own makers intended.

By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW

The A.V. Club

Mar 20, 2018

Cantet remains a gifted filmmaker — The Workshop’s semi-improvisational aspects are no less impressive than those in "The Class," and he’s at least superficially engaged with the current state of the world — but this isn’t the return to form that his fans have awaited over the past decade.

By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

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Production Company Archipel 35, France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Soficinéma 13, Playtime, Diaphana Distribution, Blaq Out, UniversCiné, Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA), Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)

Release Date Mar 23, 2018

Duration 1 h 53 m

Rating Not Rated

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Website https://www.cineart.be/fr/films/latelier

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Awards

Lumiere Awards, France

• 2 Nominations

RiverRun International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Cannes Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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Marina Foïs

Olivia Dejazet

Matthieu Lucci

Antoine

Florian Beaujean

Etienne

Doudou Masta

Bouba

Mélissa Guilbert

Lola

Warda Rammach

Malika

Julien Souve

Benjamin

Issam Talbi

Fadi

Olivier Thouret

Teddy Chauvin - le cousin

Charlie Barde

Jessica

Marie Tarabella

Mathilde

Youcef Agal

Romain

Marianne Esposito

Claudia

Thibaut Hernandez

Alex

Axel Caillet

Yohan

Lény Sellam

Boris, l'éditeur

Anne-Sophie Fayolle

La mère d'Antoine

Cédric Martinez

Le père d'Antoine

Chiara Fauvel

La soeur d'Antoine

Jorys Leuthreau

Théo

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