In this movie from French director Stéphane Brizé and starring the rumpled, grizzled screen veteran Vincent Lindon, a fictional but perfectly plausible strike assumes the personality of warfare. Brizé’s previous Cannes entry with Lindon, The Measure of a Man, had similar ideas but with more subtlety and more heart. A French factory owned by a company called Perrin Industries is informed of its closure with loss of 1100 jobs. Then they announce a sellout to a German company, who clearly made this purchase on condition of a lower wage bill. At this point, anyone watching the film will be entitled to wonder how this fictional strike is going to end.

Source: The Guardian May 15, 2018 17:15 UTC