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BBFC RatingThe Workshop

CertificateNot Rated
Year2017
GenreFrench
Director(s)Laurent Cantet
LanguageFrench
CountryFrance
Running Time1HR 53MINS
Extra InfoSubtitled
SeasonFrench Film Festival

Laurent Cantel (Cannes Palme d’Or winner for The Class) here returns to top form by mixing social relevance and tension as his characters, all high school students off for the summer, at tend a workshop for fictional writing headed by well-known French novelist Olivia (Marina Foïs).

The multiculturalism is, like most of France, represented in the group with Arabic, African, and Spanish among the dozen or so students attending the workshop. The main character, Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), is a white-nationalist-minded teenager who, in his free time, watches right-wing videos about guns and reflects on France’s lost cultural identity. Olivia soon finds herself fascinated by the angry-eyed Antoine, because, for all of his troubling views, he happens to be an astute literary critic.

Recommended: 15+

Screening as part of the 25th French Film Festival - see the full film programme here.


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