At War

Film - 2018

8,0

73.6K

At War it's a movie with Vincent Lindon, Mélanie Rover, Jacques Borderie, David REY, Olivier Lemaire Full cast. Directed by Stéphane Brizé. Original title En guerre, runtime 113 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Emiliano Baglio

In warA militant film, which relies on cinema's own means, shot like an exciting action movie. At war is a title that must be interpreted literally, both in terms of the story told by director Stéphane Brizé and in terms of style. Laurent (Vincent Lindon) and his companions/colleagues are at war against their company which , instead of keeping his word, he made waste of the agreements signed two years earlier by deciding to close the factory where our people work. And since it is precisely a war against a system that sacrifices human lives on the altar of profit Brizé turns the film as if it were a documentary, a reportage from the front where instead of bombs there is the trade union struggle. Frantic hand-held camera continuously on the actors the film proceeds in blocks constructed like small scores, thanks to a soundtrack that adapts perfectly to the images, in which the tension continually rises and is always on the verge of exploding. With his film, Brizé plastically demonstrates the difference between demonstrating and showing. There are no theses to present to the public, although the director's political position is evident, they are the images, the editing, the music, the work on the spaces, on the bodies of the actors and on the relationships between them to convey the meaning of the film. In short, the images, if you know how to handle them, speak for themselves. It's incredible as a film in which there is a lot of talk, consisting largely of meetings between workers and between trade unionists and the company, is so compelling. Whether dealing with occupations, pickets or union meetings, everything in Brizé's work has the rhythm of an exciting action film that continually leaves you breathless. Thanks, as already mentioned, to how the director shoots the scenes, to the choice of electronic music that underlines Read all

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After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.