The Workshop (2017)
(L'atelier)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 113m
Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean
Synopsis:
Teenagers take part in a creative writing summer school helmed by a successful authoress, but the antisocial tendencies of one of their number threaten to destabilize the group.
Review:
Inevitably to be compared with the same director's Entre les murs, as another film in which a responsible adult finds herself challenged by the semi-improvised banter from a bunch of more or less compliant adolescents until she crosses a dubious line of her own. Essentially it is a game of cat and mouse in which one is never sure to what extend young Antoine is a powder keg waiting to go off, or simply a bored young man struggling to make sense of his place in the universe, and trying dangerous ideologies on for size in the process. The film rightly addresses the legacy of the Bataclan and Nice attacks for a multicultural society, and challenges its characters, and ourselves, to countenance politically incorrect statements of 'comprehension' in the face of damnable acts.
(L'atelier)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 113m
Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean
Synopsis:
Teenagers take part in a creative writing summer school helmed by a successful authoress, but the antisocial tendencies of one of their number threaten to destabilize the group.
Review:
Inevitably to be compared with the same director's Entre les murs, as another film in which a responsible adult finds herself challenged by the semi-improvised banter from a bunch of more or less compliant adolescents until she crosses a dubious line of her own. Essentially it is a game of cat and mouse in which one is never sure to what extend young Antoine is a powder keg waiting to go off, or simply a bored young man struggling to make sense of his place in the universe, and trying dangerous ideologies on for size in the process. The film rightly addresses the legacy of the Bataclan and Nice attacks for a multicultural society, and challenges its characters, and ourselves, to countenance politically incorrect statements of 'comprehension' in the face of damnable acts.
(L'atelier)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 113m
Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean
Synopsis:
Teenagers take part in a creative writing summer school helmed by a successful authoress, but the antisocial tendencies of one of their number threaten to destabilize the group.
Review:
Inevitably to be compared with the same director's Entre les murs, as another film in which a responsible adult finds herself challenged by the semi-improvised banter from a bunch of more or less compliant adolescents until she crosses a dubious line of her own. Essentially it is a game of cat and mouse in which one is never sure to what extend young Antoine is a powder keg waiting to go off, or simply a bored young man struggling to make sense of his place in the universe, and trying dangerous ideologies on for size in the process. The film rightly addresses the legacy of the Bataclan and Nice attacks for a multicultural society, and challenges its characters, and ourselves, to countenance politically incorrect statements of 'comprehension' in the face of damnable acts.