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A flying visit to the invisible
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Between Two Worlds (12A)
Directed by Emmanuel Carrere
A WELL-KNOWN author goes undercover as a cleaner to investigate the hardships, insecure employment and poverty suffered by France’s invisible female workforce in this insightful drama posing ethical questions.
Based on French investigative journalist Florence Aubena’s book The Night Cleaner, about her real-life experiences on this front, it stars Juliette Binoche as Marianne Winckler, who breaks all ties with her middle-class life and heads to the northern port city of Caen to find employment — and the contents of her next book.
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