“Between Two Worlds” / "Ouistreham" by Emmanuel Carrere, France, 2021, 106’

Ouistreham d'Emmanuel Carrere ouvre la Quinzaine des realizateurs, 2021

This film will be shown in French with English subtitiles.

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Helene Lambert

Synopsis:

Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences financial instability and social invisibility first-hand. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity, strong bonds shared by these behind-the-scenes working women.

Emmanuel Carrere

Biography:

Emmanuel Carrer is a French writer, screenwriter, and film director. Emmanuel graduated from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He started as a film critic in magazines, his first book was devoted to the life and work of Werner Herzog (1982). He was a member of the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival 2010. The author of novels (the novel Winter Camp in the Mountains, 1995, received the Femina Award and was adapted by Claude Miller in 1998, the film won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival), several books of short stories. He has published novelized biographies of Philip K. Dick (1993) and Eduard Limonov (2011, Renaudot Prize). As a screenwriter and director, he works in film and television.