US Edition‘At Work’ Review: A Writer Struggles To Make Ends Meet In A Dull Look At Life In Today’s Gig Economy – Venice Film Festival
Paul Marquet leaves a lucrative photography career to pursue writing, working low-paid gigs via a job app and earning as little as €20 per job, facing financial and personal challenges.
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Friday afternoon in Competition of the 82nd Mostra del cinema, the French filmmaker seduced with a drama of great accuracy on the precariousness of the profession of writer. ...
‘At Work’ Review: A Writer Is Both Inspired and Exploited by the Gig Economy in Valérie Donzelli’s Perceptive Character Study
Nobody but the perilously naive these days expects to become a writer and get rich. Perhaps more are surprised by how hard it is to become a writer and actually get writing. A vocation increasingly treated by the world as a hobby, it can get ever more wearyingly squeezed between day jobs and domestic obligations and less stimulating freelance gigs, until it’s hard to find the words, even when you find the time. “Why don’t you get a real job?” as…
‘At Work’ Review: A Struggling French Writer Plunges Himself Into the Gig Economy in a Thoughtful if Lackluster Drama
The latest from writer-director Valérie Donzelli ('Declaration of War') stars Bastien Bouillon ('The Night of the 12th') as a novelist eking out a living as a freelance handyman in Paris.
‘At Work’ Review: A Writer Struggles To Make Ends Meet In A Dull Look At Life In Today’s Gig Economy – Venice Film Festival
If At Work had been made 50 years ago it would likely have been a bawdy sex comedy — Confessions of a Handyman — but in today’s world there is next to no fun to be had from the world of no-strings employment. Weirdly, Valérie Donzelli’s film is dour even by those standards; there are […]
The film is not a descent to the underworld, as rhetoric would like, but a guided and documented tour in the most extreme precarious. It is not the recipe for a bestseller, it is the exact opposite
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