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At Work

2026 · 92 min

A quiet, rueful plunge into precarity, watching a man trade comfort for calling and slowly reckon with the cost.

Genres
Drama
Overview
A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.
How it feels
Melancholic, earnest, satirical and bleak. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Work, class, identity, isolation
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • class
  • identity
  • isolation
  • ambition
Places
  • big city
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Valérie Donzelli
Written by
Gilles Marchand, Valérie Donzelli
Starring
Bastien Bouillon, Virginie Ledoyen, André Marcon, Valérie Donzelli, Marie Rivière, Adrien Barazzone, Marion Lecrivain, Oscar Tillette
Music
Jean-Michel Bernard
Cinematography
Irina Lubtchansky
Runtime
92 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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