In competition: Un autre monde / On the Job: The Missing 8

Un autre monde. The pit of modern work according to Brizé

«My films have always told very personal stories, I never thought it was necessary to dwell on the social environment in which the characters were placed. Later I began to analyze the brutality of the mechanisms and the dominant relationships in our world». This is how Stéphane Brizé explains the genesis of his trilogy on the world of work, which began with La loi du marchée (2015), continued in 2018 with En guerre (2018) and ended with Un autre monde, in competition at Venice 78. A common feature of Brizé’s movies (already competing in Venice five years ago with Une vie) is the presence of Vincent Lindon who won in Cannes as best actor for his magnificent character Thierry of La loi du marchée, a worker fired after 25 years because the owners of the company relocate production to maximize profits. When he finds another job, he must choose, explains the director «to become an accomplice of a ruthless system or leaving it and returning to an unstable life». «The place of a man in the system» is the core of Brizé trilogy. It was the same for En guerre, in which Lindon is a trade unionist engaged in a more and more desperate fight against the factory he works for to avert mass layoffs (of course due to globalization). Un autre monde is the point of view of the other side, the manager Philippe, separated by his wife (Sandrine Kiberlain) and subject to the inconsistent decisions of the board of the company he works for that will lead to dramatic consequences. There’s room for everyone in the pit of the global market. According to the Artistic Director of Venice 78 Alberto Barbera, this is «the best movie of the trilogy». Un autre monde has important references such as Robert Guédiguian and Ken Loach. The movie runs on a thin line across fiction and documentary.

Un autre monde

France, 2021 Directed by Stéphane Brizé With Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anthony Bajon, Marie Drucker Lenght 1 h e 36’

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