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  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, The Worst Ones captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the...

Written By: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, Elénore Gurrey, Catherine Paillé

  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 39 m

The Worst Ones

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, The Worst Ones captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the...

Written By: Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret, Elénore Gurrey, Catherine Paillé

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88
Mar 24, 2023
This is one of those movies that shows rather than tells—always preferable, even in the moments when the big picture is still coming into focus.
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 23, 2023
Luminously photographed and nimbly edited, The Worst Ones — which won the Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022 — offers a provocative critique of filmmaking practices. It also presents a subtle defense of the onscreen miracles revealed by the young and the raw.
By Lisa Kennedy FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 26, 2023
Part of what makes The Worst Ones tick with a pace close to that of a thriller is its self-reflexive relationship to genre and knack for referentiality.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 24, 2023
Akoka and Gueret split the difference, inviting the audience to consider the meta-ness of everything going on while really just making a compelling social-realist comedy about what happens when a film crew descends on a working-class town. That the filmmakers end up making the same film as Gabriel seems to be the point.
By Christian Gallichio FULL REVIEW
60
May 28, 2022
The Worst Ones is trying to be both a kind of documentary about its own making and a drama about a guy making another film. Unfortunately, the two don’t mesh.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films Velvet, France 3 Cinéma, Pictanovo, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Région Hauts-de-France, Ciclic-Region Centre-Val de Loire, France Télévisions, Canal+, Ciné+, Cinéventure 7, Cinémage 16
Release Date Mar 24, 2023
Duration 1 h 39 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Pingyao International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
César Awards, France
• 2 Nominations

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