Film Review — Another World
★★★★☆ Stressful corporate drama is worth investing in
Pressure mounts on an embattled corporate executive whose professional dedication has come at great personal cost.
Vincent Lindon (Titane) is a man under incredible pressure in Stéphane Brizé’s absorbing and relentless drama with a noticeable anti-capitalistic sentiment.
Centre framed for practically every second of its brisk runtime, Lindon’s rugged, weather-worn features perfectly capture the emotion of every uncomfortable confrontation, of which there are many. Long one of France’s go-to thespians, Lindon is now firmly entrenched as one of my favourite actors working today; such is the power of his performance here.
Co-written with Olivier Gorce, Brizé’s seething contempt for the corporate world is palpable. Oscillating between emotional scenes of a fractured family, Lindon cuts a grave figure as he sits in on a series of increasingly fraught meetings, a suited middleman caught between the rock of his ambitious superiors and the hard place of a workforce paying the price for cold spreadsheets and corporate greed.
Professional aspirations often come at a price, a sentiment expressed with real potency in Lindon’s heartbreaking scenes with co-star (and real-life former spouse) Sandrine Kiberlain, who is uncomfortably believable as having cracked under the pressure of their unbalanced relationship. Anthony Bajon also features, deepening an engrossing crisis as the couple’s troubled son.
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