Between Two Worlds is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.
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Even as director Emmanuel Carrère attempts to stay neutral by shooting in a documentary-like style, the film flips back and forth between between patronising indulgence and well-meaning expose..| Read in full: Between Two Worlds film review We Love Cinema
The film finally behaves as if the journalist’s drama is as important as its ostensible subject, the injustice of exploitative employment practices.The Guardian
Although it is meant as an exposé, the film doesn’t give us a figure at which to aim our outrage.Sight and Sound
Cinema has never solved the problem at the heart of social realism. With the odd exception, most exposés of ‘how the other half lives’ are made by well-meaning outsiders, who turn impressions into melodrama.Empire
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