The Workshop

Name: The Workshop
Genre: Drama
Released: March 23, 2018
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Charlie Barde, Florian Beaujean, Issam Talbi, Julien Souve, Mamadou Doumbia

2018

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 23, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Charlie Barde, Florian Beaujean, Issam Talbi, Julien Souve, Mamadou Doumbia, Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Mélissa Guilbert, Olivier Thouret, Warda Rammach

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 ofLa 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 of the modern world, the young man soon clashes with the group and Olivia, who seems at the same time alarmed and captivated by Antoine’s violence. [Strand Releasing]… Expand

Director: Laurent Cantet

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 113 min

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Guy Lodge

Mar 19, 2018

A sly, supple and repeatedly surprising collision of literary, moral and political lines of debate that marks an enthralling return to form for writer-director Laurent Cantet. Read full review

Dan Fainaru

Mar 19, 2018

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

Jennifer Szalai

Mar 22, 2018

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

Jordan Mintzer

Mar 19, 2018

Featuring sharp performances from Marina Fois (Polisse) and promising newcomer Matthieu Lucci, the film shows Cantet returning to form...with a story that pursues the themes of his best work while underscoring some of the issues currently facing his homeland. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Mar 23, 2018

For myself, I couldn’t avoid the irony that, in finding it ultimately rather superficial and self-satisfied in that particular Parisian way, I was echoing Antoine’s criticism of Olivia’s writing. Read full review

Ben Croll

Mar 19, 2018

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

Mike D'Angelo

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. Read full review

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