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  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary 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...

Written By: Eric Gravel

  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2023
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 28 m

Full Time

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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83
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary 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...

Written By: Eric Gravel

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90
Feb 9, 2023
Gravel, in the heart-stopping vein of Belgium’s social-realism-minded Dardennes brothers, invests his protagonist’s one-challenge-at-a-time needs with the kind of visual intimacy and racing rhythm that makes us feel intensely close to Julie, from first sprint in her dehumanizing day to the exhaling bathtub soak she takes each night.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 2, 2023
Full Time . . . depicts the never-ending sprint that is Julie’s life as a struggling single mom, rendering this social-realist drama as a gritty, heart-pounding thriller, with breathless, naturalistic handheld cinematography by Victor Seguin and an adrenaline-pounding electronic score by Irène Drésel.
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88
Feb 10, 2023
The film is a master class in reactivity, and Calamy manages it with perfect dramatic pitch.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 13, 2023
Molehills to the rich feel like mountains to the working class, and Gravel finds the stylistic tools that can translate such scale into riveting cinema — and confer the kind of importance that the Julies all over the world deserve.
By Marshall Shaffer FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 23, 2023
As the title promises, Full Time is centered on work. It’s one of the best recent movies about work, and it approaches the subject with sharply analytical specificity.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 30, 2023
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.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
63
Jan 30, 2023
Full Time doesn’t have much to say about organized labor, or labor in general, other than that work can be really stressful.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Novoprod, France 2 Cinéma, Haut et Court, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Région Normandie, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Palatine Étoile 18, Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA)
Release Date Feb 3, 2023
Duration 1 h 28 m
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Website https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/full-time/
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Les Arcs European Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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