Full Time

Mother of two Julie (Laure Calamy) is making ends meet, getting by as the head chambermaid of a five-star hotel in Paris, with only sporadic alimony payments from her ex-husband. Each meticulously-planned day starts before sunrise, preparing the kids for school and undertaking a long commute to work, where she unflappably completes her duties in time to return to them.

But when a national railway strike breaks out – paralysing the entire Île-de-France public transport system – Julie's routine is thrown into chaos, increasingly pushing her into a frenetic race against time that threatens everything she's worked so hard for.

Critic Reviews:

• " In his second feature film, Full Time, writer-director Éric Gravel transforms a week in the life of a working mother into a heart-pounding thriller that puts us in her stressed headspace. " – Alex Heeney (Seventh Row)

• " It’s a panic-fuelled portrait of human resilience that’s crafted with both urgency and grace, examining the self-sacrificial nature of parenting and the instinct to persevere when all hope is lost. " – Marc Ricov (Film Inquiry)

• " I can't remember a slasher or gore-porn or chainsaw massacre that had my stomach in my throat, had me lifting my feet up off the cinema floor, had my pulse racing quite as much as this French art-house film… " – Cris Kennedy (The Canberra Times, Australia)