Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #51. Stéphane Brizé’s Un Autre Monde

Published on January 3, 2018

Un Autre Monde

Stéphane Brizé has moved quite quickly to his eighth film Un Autre Monde (aka Another World) while enjoying the recent successes of 2015’s The Measure of a Man and 2016’s A Woman’s Life (Top 20 of 2017 Countdown). He returns to issues of the working class with his favored collaborator Vincent Lindon, who won Best Actor at Cannes as well as a Cesar for The Measure of a Man (this will mark their fourth project together following A Few Hours of Spring, Mademoiselle Chambon, and Man). Lindon, who played a security guard at a grocery store in Man, will this time portray a union leader who becomes embroiled in media publicity when a factory which had previously demanded its employees take a pay cut now faces impending closure. Brizé’s additional cast consists of mostly non-professionals.

Release Date/Prediction: Brizé, who won a Cesar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2010 with Mademoiselle Chambon, has quickly become one of France’s leading contemporary auteurs. After breaking into the Cannes comp with 2015’s The Measure of a Man, Brizé followed it up by competing in Venice with A Woman’s Life, which nabbed the FIPRESCI Prize. Since Un Autre Monde began filming in October, we’re assuming a return to Cannes will be sought after from production company MK2.

Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.