At War (En guerre)
Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs.
May 16, 2018
[Director Stephan] Brizé makes an unfortunate mistake... by not understanding that the workers' struggles belong to everyone and that, in any case, there are leaders, but never martyrs, much less saints. [Full review in Spanish]
May 15, 2018
It's all about actors doing improv shouting in each other's faces. This is film-making by megaphone.
May 15, 2018
In Union leader, spokesperson and factory worker Laurent Amédéo, Lindon adds another rivetingly real characterization to his muscular everyman repertoire.
May 15, 2018
A generally gripping account of workers taking on the man.
May 15, 2018
Ripped from the headlines, keenly researched and carefully crafted, this fictional tale has near-universal resonance...
May 16, 2018
It's a theme that resonates for millions, but the problem with At War isn't its sincerity so much as the way it takes its central ideas for granted.

