Full Time

Eric Gravel, France, 2021

Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich Rated 12 Run time 88 mins

Driven and exhausted single mum Julie (Calamy) attempts to juggle childcare, increasingly tortuous commuting and searching for a better job while housemaiding for the ungrateful rich at a top Parisian hotel and chasing maintenance payments from her duplicitous ex-husband. Then the wheels start to come off… Calamy is outstanding in this sobering reminder of the pressures of life on ostensibly ‘white-collar’ women workers.

98% – Rotten Tomatoes

7.4 / 10 – IMDB

“Irène Drésel’s cortisol-raising score furiously rat-a-tat-tats and drives the action forward. Mathilde Van de Moortel’s staccato editing emphasises the unstoppable pace of Julie’s life, as she briskly makes beds and bleaches toilets on the clock”

“Julie might not be a particularly well developed character – her fraught circumstances take precedence over her interiority – and yet Calamy’s compassionate performance ensures you’re always rooting for her.”

FULL TIME REVIEW: A RIVETING TICKING-CLOCK DOMESTIC THRILLER – Curzon