Cassandre (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is disconnected from life after the death of her mother, spending her days working on a budget airline, and having meaningless relationships.Cassandre (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is disconnected from life after the death of her mother, spending her days working on a budget airline, and having meaningless relationships.Cassandre (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is disconnected from life after the death of her mother, spending her days working on a budget airline, and having meaningless relationships.
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- TriviaThe interior plane scenes were shot in a charter plane rented by the production, which made real round-trip flights, with extras paid in plane tickets for future trips.
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Written and Performed by Gala
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VERY Realistic, Well Acted...But Not Interesting
This film about a young woman without any particular ambition working as a flight attendant was extremely real. It felt like a secret camera was just recording a month in the life of a few people working for the fictional Wing discount airline. The acting was terrific, and made the story feel completely believable.
I mostly enjoyed the aspects of the film that related to labor relations at her airline: how they pushed the cabin crew to be salespeople, underpaid them, & treated them like crap. There is a chance, here, for our main character to get involved with this storyline when she meets a picket line of her co-workers, but she waves off the union effort to improve conditions with a nihilistic, "nothing matters, nothing changes".
Our main character also has a chance to express something, to *do* something interesting around the death of her mother. But she doesn't. She keeps her pain bundled inside, as many of us do in the real world, and just carries on.
This character's life is boring because SHE is boring and lacks any compelling motivation. The film successfully illustrates that to the audience.
But being 100% "true-to-life" is NOT entertaining, unless the life in question is entertaining. There are millions of people in the world living non-ambitious lives worth repetitive jobs...and I don't want to watch a long-form film about each of them.
In this case, the writers and directors seem to have gone out of their way to illustrate how monotone this woman's life was. It is a symphony concert written with one note played over and over. It was "aggressively mundane", which is artistic, but *still* boring.
I mostly enjoyed the aspects of the film that related to labor relations at her airline: how they pushed the cabin crew to be salespeople, underpaid them, & treated them like crap. There is a chance, here, for our main character to get involved with this storyline when she meets a picket line of her co-workers, but she waves off the union effort to improve conditions with a nihilistic, "nothing matters, nothing changes".
Our main character also has a chance to express something, to *do* something interesting around the death of her mother. But she doesn't. She keeps her pain bundled inside, as many of us do in the real world, and just carries on.
This character's life is boring because SHE is boring and lacks any compelling motivation. The film successfully illustrates that to the audience.
But being 100% "true-to-life" is NOT entertaining, unless the life in question is entertaining. There are millions of people in the world living non-ambitious lives worth repetitive jobs...and I don't want to watch a long-form film about each of them.
In this case, the writers and directors seem to have gone out of their way to illustrate how monotone this woman's life was. It is a symphony concert written with one note played over and over. It was "aggressively mundane", which is artistic, but *still* boring.
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- Jul 13, 2023
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- Carpe Diem
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- Aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, France(scenes at the main Paris Airport)
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- $1,008,088
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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