SYNOPSICS
L'atelier (2017) is a French movie. Laurent Cantet has directed this movie. Marina Foïs,Matthieu Lucci,Florian Beaujean,Doudou Masta are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. L'atelier (2017) is considered one of the best Drama,Mystery,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out. Provocative and aggressive, he gets noticed by his systematic opposition to all, including Olivia. Even more alarming, the story he has devised and that he reads aloud, the cold description of a mass murder seen through the eyes of its perpetrator, proves very disturbing. Antoine understands the killer too well. At this point, Olivia starts experiencing a feeling of attraction repulsion to Antoine.
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L'atelier (2017) Reviews
French society under the microscope
For those who have seen Laurent Cantet's previous film 'Entre les murs', his new movie 'L'atelier' can have a 'déja vu' effect. Both films share the same concept: a group of French teenagers from all walks of life, brought together under the supervision of an adult, talk about their lives and what's going on in society. 'Entre les murs' was almost entirely set in a school building, 'L'atelier' shows a creative writing workshop in La Ciotat, a town on the Mediterranean coast near Marseille. There are many similarities between both movies, but also many differences. 'L'atelier' delves deep into the psychology of one workshop participant, and also shows the world around the house where the workshop takes place. In a way, it is more complex and deeper than 'Entre les murs'. The location of the film is very important. La Ciotat is a town in decline, but the local population cherishes nostalgic memories of its past as an important ship building town. Cantet uses historical footage to show this glorious past. The shipyard is still there, but it is no longer in use. The resentment of the locals is a rich feeding ground for anti-immigrant politicians. These problems will soon dominate the workshop, led by the elegant Parisian author Olivia Dejazet. The kids in the workshop think she is snobbish and doesn't really understand their problems, but she soon shows her teaching talent by coaching their sentiments and encouraging them to use those feelings in their writing efforts. Dejazet is intrigued by Antoine, a provocative workshop participant who shocks with his extreme and cruel writing efforts. She wants to understand what's going on in his head, partly because she considers using this insight in her next novel. In turn, Antoine tries to analyze Dejazet's way of thinking by dissecting one of her novels. After a while the mutual obsession between teacher and pupil gets out of hand. 'L'Atelier' tackles the problems of modern French society in a very original way. The contrasts are numerous: the intellectuals in Paris versus the working class population in the industrial towns, the Muslim population versus the non-Muslims (the Bataclan massacre is one of the discussion subjects), and the ultra-right populists versus the socialist left. But the film is also a psychological drama between two strong characters, both played very effectively. Laurent Cantet has put French society under the microscope, and shows that there is a lot of dissent, but also much hope for better times.
Some nice performances but I struggled to discern the meaning and purpose of the film.
The French film, "The Workshop", is a difficult film for me to review. On one hand, I appreciated that it dared to address some important social issues facing the country and many other countries. But, on the other, the message seems confusing and will likely leave many viewers wondering what the picture was trying to say or, if it was trying to say anything at all. The story is set in a small town which is experiencing hard times. The local shipyard was closed long ago and there is a sense of malaise over the place. Because of this, it's surprising that a published author like Olivia (Marina Fois) would come all the way here to teach a summer course on creative writing. Seven students have signed up for the class and its freestyle structure leads to these young adults revealing who they are and what they think during the discussions. Several of the students are defensive because they are Muslims and the class is working on a murder mystery and they don't want the characters or story to come off as anti-Muslim. But one of the students, a loner named Antoine (Matthieu Lucci) seems to take pleasure out of baiting his fellow students and bucking the group-think that has been established in the class. Over time, Olivia begins to worry that Antoine actually might harbor real fantasies of murder and his social media account and that of his friends seem to indicate this is a real possibility. The story, at this point, is pretty interesting and I was hooked. Unfortunately, the teacher's actions and Antoine's from this point on are unpredictable, often confusing and really left me wondering what the message was supposed to be in the picture. In other words, it all seemed to fall apart at the end and left some of the viewers baffled. It's all a shame, as there really are some interesting story elements and it could have been better.
So deep so much detalis.
The movie gives attention to the small details to the things that dont cross your mind the final writing of Antoine says a lot about life . it is the still scene we always living in convert everything from its beauty to boredom . The acting so good . the writing is so good and escaped successfully from being boring movie talk about life to movie makes you think a lot about things .
Al menos el director es coherente. At least the director is coherent
Es coherente con hacer todo su cine igual. Es demasiado larga. No va a ningún sitio. Las secuencias son interminables. Cuenta lo mismo todo el rato. En esta llegamos a coger otro camino, pero luego no sé por qué, no lo usa. El tema se queda en la nada. En la primera secuencia ya sabes por donde va a ir, cuando la secuencia se empieza a repetir y no termina nunca, cuando ves la iluminación que tiene y la forma de rodar. Va a ser coherente con su cine. Tengo que ver más, me imagino lo que veré. Los actores muy bien. Seguro que como dije en "La clase" no son profesionales. La iluminación, a que no tiene iluminación. Ya decía yo No entiendo por qué esa manía de rodar una mesa con gente hablando como si estuviesen en un bombardeo. No tiene lógica, pero claro es que toda la película esta así, da igual lo que cuente, todo se rueda igual de mal. Es larga, larga, aunque sin rumbo. Aburre mucho. Voy a ver más, pero sé que me aburriré. It is consistent with doing all your movies the same. It is too long It does not go anywhere. The sequences are endless. Tell the same thing all the time. In this we get to take another road, but then I do not know why, do not use it. The subject remains in nothingness. In the first sequence you know where you are going to go, when the sequence begins to repeat and never ends, when you see the lighting that you have and the way you roll. You will be consistent with your movies. I have to see more, I imagine what I will see. The actors very well. Surely as I said in "The class" are not professionals. Illumination, to which it has no illumination. I already said I do not understand why this mania of rolling a table with people talking as if they were in a bombing. It has no logic, but of course the whole movie is like that, no matter what counts, everything is just as bad. It's long, long, but aimless. It bores a lot. I'll see more, but I know I'll get bored.
Had Potential
The storyline concerns a successful novelist who is hired to come to a French town experiencing a post shipbuilding industrial decline to give a workshop to a half dozen young adults (late teens/early 20s) on developing writing/creative thinking skills. Not clear if it's to help develop the youth's futures, or to become writers, or learn cooperative skills, or become well adjusted. The author encourages them to "Do research to make your fiction more real." Good potential for some insight on writing, but what we get for the movie is a lot of immature antagonistic aggressive back and forth from the group which leads me to believe the movie is more about exposing the differences amongst them (racial, gender, religious, political). Some cooperative understanding did surface, but a lot was left unclear which probably mirrors life.