Review: 'Full Time' is strong and highly economical storytelling, clocking in at under 90 minutes. As the one-woman coping mechanism, Laure Calamy is terrific.
A Paris chambermaid juggles parenthood, childcare, job-hunting and more in the unlikely French thriller"Full Time."
But no. The enemy in this ground-level, working-class thriller is time, with an assist from relentless labor practices; a crippling series of Parisian strikes messing up everyone’s commutes; and the challenges of childcare for working parents trying to hang onto their job as well as their sanity. If you thought Season 1 of “The Bear” was tense, “Full Time” makes “The Bear” look like “March of the Penguins.
At the hotel Julie oversees a whirl of controlled chaos in a caste system determined by the demands of Platinum-level guests. She trains dubious new hires when she isn’t power-washing one room’s bathroom walls after an incident of feces-smearing. Meantime she’s angling on the sly for a job interview elsewhere.