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.
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