The Workshop

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Director:Laurent Cantet
Cast:Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi
Premiere:24. May 2018
Length:113 minutes
Genre:Drama

The Workshop

L'atelier; Laurent Cantet, 2017, OV (fran.) + ST (cz); Laurent Cantet, 2017, versions: OR,CS,

Director: Laurent Cantet • Scenario: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet • Camera: Pierre Milon • Haircut: Mathilde Muyard • Music: Bedis Tir, Edouard Pons • Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi, Florian Beaujean, Mamadou Doumbia, Mélissa Guilbert, Julien Souve, Olivier Thouret, Lény Sellam

The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out. Provocative and aggressive, he gets noticed by his systematic opposition to all, including Olivia. Even more alarming, the story he has devised and that he reads aloud, the cold description of a mass murder seen through the eyes of its perpetrator, proves very disturbing. Antoine understands the killer too well. At this point, Olivia starts experiencing a feeling of attraction repulsion to Antoine.

Length: 113 min

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 24. May 2018

Country of origin:

  • France

Language version:

OR - Original version
CS - Czech subtitles

Director: Laurent Cantet • Scenario: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet • Camera: Pierre Milon • Haircut: Mathilde Muyard • Music: Bedis Tir, Edouard Pons • Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi, Florian Beaujean, Mamadou Doumbia, Mélissa Guilbert, Julien Souve, Olivier Thouret, Lény Sellam

The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out. Provocative and aggressive, he gets noticed by his systematic opposition to all, including Olivia. Even more alarming, the story he has devised and that he reads aloud, the cold description of a mass murder seen through the eyes of its perpetrator, proves very disturbing. Antoine understands the killer too well. At this point, Olivia starts experiencing a feeling of attraction repulsion to Antoine.

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 24. May 2018

Country of origin:

  • France

Language version:

OR - Original version
CS - Czech subtitles