Music Box Films is pleased to announce the US release of FULL TIME, writer-director Éric Gravel’s hyper kinetic drama unfolding over one week in the life of a divorced working mother in Paris. Featuring a thrilling performance by rising star Laure Calamy, FULL TIME won the Best Director and Best Actress awards at the Venice Film Festival (Horizons), was selected for MOMA and Film at Lincoln Center’s New Directors New Films series, and just received four César Award nominations for Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Original Score. FULL TIME will open exclusively in theaters on Friday, February 3rd in New York (Quad Cinema), followed by Los Angeles (Laemmle Royal) on Friday, February 10th and a national rollout.
Single mother Julie (Laure Calamy in her second nomination for a Best Actress César) works a grueling job as a head chambermaid in a five-star Parisian hotel. Julie’s daily balance of commuting from her remote suburb into Paris, tenuous childcare and search for a new job to get her out of debt, becomes unmanageable during a paralyzing transport strike in Paris. Literally running from dawn to sunset to get to her job and back home in time to fetch her children, Julie is constantly on the verge of a breakdown. When she finally gets a job interview for a position more suited to her skill set, Julie has to walk a very tightrope between keeping her current job, and sneaking out while calling on co-workers to cover for her as more obstacles pile up in front of her
With a pulsating score by César nominee Irène Drésel combined with handheld camera and masterful editing by César nominee Mathilde van de Moortel, FULL TIME propels the viewer from one scene to the next at lightning speed. Eric Gravel’s second directorial outing, from his own César nominated screenplay, puts him at the forefront of France’s most promising new directorial voices while confirming Laure Calamy as one of the most gifted French actresses of her generation.
"Éric Gravel’s 'Full Time' potently blends the social realism of the Dardenne brothers with the nerve-racking intensity of the Safdies’ 'Uncut Gems'.”- Film Comment, Vikram Murthi
“...a propulsively intense piece of filmmaking…” Screen International, Wendy Ide
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