OUISTREHAM / BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences financial instability and social invisibility first-hand. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity.

EMANUEL KARER / Emmanuel Carrère

Writer, screenwriter and director, Emmanuel Carrère (Paris, 1957), has a diploma from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He debuted as a film critic with the Positif and Télérama magazines. In 1982 he published his first work, Werner Herzog, a monograph on the filmmaker, and released his first novel the following year, L'amie du jaguar. In 1986 he published The Moustache, which he himself adapted to the cinema in 2005. He has also directed the documentary Retour à Kotelnitch (2004). Between Two Worlds (2021), his second fiction film, opened the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) at Cannes. This film is a adaptation of Florence Aubenas’s novel The Night Cleaner.

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Juliette Binoche stars in Directors’ Fortnight opener about an undercover writer who plans an expose on France’s employment crisis.

Wendy Ide, Screen Daily