Ouistreham

2021 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 79% · 57 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83%
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 2872 2.9K

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Plot summary

Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.

Director

Emmanuel Carrère Photo
Emmanuel Carrère

Top cast

Juliette Binoche Photo
Juliette Binoche as Marianne Winckler
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing Photo
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Louis-Do
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet Photo
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet as Charline
François Samuelson Photo
François Samuelson as L'agent de Marianne
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Juliette Binoche is "Marianne", a woman looking for

Juliette Binoche is "Marianne", a woman looking for work after her marriage has failed and she is left pretty much broke. The employment agency recommends she becomes something along the lines of a "domestic apparatus operator" (i.e. a minimum wage cleaner). Talk about back-breaking work? Anyway, gradually she finds her feet and falls in with other, similarly situated, folks - notably the affable "Cèdric" (Didier Pupin) with whom she bonds a little (platonically), and "Chrystèle" (a strong performance from Hélène Lambert). It is the latter who manages to get "Marianne" a job cleaning the ferry between Portsmouth and Ouistreham where they work servicing the guest cabins - 4 minutes per cabin! Now I have used this ferry once or twice, so at this point the reality of the film - and of the really tough jobs done by these labourers (for that is certainly what they are) starts to kick in. They have a camaraderie and an esprit de corps that defiantly stands up to the pretty difficult working environment in which they must function. Lambert, especially, but Lèa Carne's "Marilou" and Evelyn Porèe's team-leading "Nadège" all contribute well to the general sense of just how hard these folks toil, and on what tiny incomes they are expected to get by. The twist? Well, midway through, we learn that "Marianne" has quite a different agenda to that introduced at the top of the film, and what conflict there is comes from that realisation by her friends who must come to terms with her true identity. Some applaud whilst other this see as a betrayal. Binoche is convincing here; and the film offers us a pretty scathing attack on not just the employers who pay next to nothing, but on the travellers and general public who seem incapable of flushing a toilet or tidying up after themselves. It does plod a bit; and the ending is both rushed and a little disappointing - but as a critique on an employment sub-culture which many of us just sleep through, it is well worth a watch.
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Reviewed by imursel 6 / 10

Unnessarily ruined by the last act

How a perfect beginning film could be destroy by the final act. This is one of the best films to rely to the cleaner workers. As an idea, the film works very well. Also respectable to rely on the problems of the working class as in a Ken Loach film. But the problem that ruins all of this is the final part that shatters all the coherence of the plot, despite the wonderful acting of Juliette Binoch. In the end this film, which has good intentions such as dedicating oneself to the situation of the workers or simply the description of a friendship and solidarity, leaves you with a dry mouth and an empty stomach.

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