Grand Central (2013)
Country: FR/�ST
Technical: col 94m
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet
Synopsis:
Having walked out on his wife and kid, Gary hits the road as an itinerant worker and signs up to work at one of the nuclear power stations along the Rhône valley. Schooled to negotiate the hazardous daily contact with a contaminated working environment by a couple of veteran employees, he begins an affair with the fiancée of one of them.
Review:
Like many French films of its kind, this is strong on incidental detail (Gary's gay hellraising buddies, for example) and short on plot. It does, however, penetrate the lives of its characters and the socio-economic milieu it depicts. That said, you may find the seven siren blasts that close the movie a scant conclusion to the questions it raises, not least the fate of its central relationship.
Country: FR/�ST
Technical: col 94m
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet
Synopsis:
Having walked out on his wife and kid, Gary hits the road as an itinerant worker and signs up to work at one of the nuclear power stations along the Rhône valley. Schooled to negotiate the hazardous daily contact with a contaminated working environment by a couple of veteran employees, he begins an affair with the fiancée of one of them.
Review:
Like many French films of its kind, this is strong on incidental detail (Gary's gay hellraising buddies, for example) and short on plot. It does, however, penetrate the lives of its characters and the socio-economic milieu it depicts. That said, you may find the seven siren blasts that close the movie a scant conclusion to the questions it raises, not least the fate of its central relationship.
Country: FR/�ST
Technical: col 94m
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet
Synopsis:
Having walked out on his wife and kid, Gary hits the road as an itinerant worker and signs up to work at one of the nuclear power stations along the Rhône valley. Schooled to negotiate the hazardous daily contact with a contaminated working environment by a couple of veteran employees, he begins an affair with the fiancée of one of them.
Review:
Like many French films of its kind, this is strong on incidental detail (Gary's gay hellraising buddies, for example) and short on plot. It does, however, penetrate the lives of its characters and the socio-economic milieu it depicts. That said, you may find the seven siren blasts that close the movie a scant conclusion to the questions it raises, not least the fate of its central relationship.