[Please note: These events have ended.]
Two years after the French film, Between Two Worlds (French title: Ouistreham) premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, moviegoers in the United States finally get an opportunity to see the film starting today, August 11, 2023 in New York City and Los Angeles.
In addition, the film will be screened here in Northern California on Friday, August 25 at the Orinda Theatre and on Saturday, August 26 at the Jarvis Conservatory in Napa Valley as part of the annual International Film Showcase.
Synopsis of Between Two Worlds:
Famed author Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Normandy, France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that it’s for the greater good.
A longtime passion project for star and Academy Award ® Winning Actress Juliette Binoche, Between Two Worlds is adapted from Florence Aubenas’s bestselling non-fiction work, Le Quai de Ouistreham (The Night Cleaner) and marks Emmanuel Carrère’s return to directing for the first time since The Moustache in 2008. Carrère has achieved world renown and acclaim as an author and has been described by Karl Ove Knausgaard as ‘the most exciting living writer!’
Watch the trailer for Between Two Worlds:
About the International Film Showcase
The International Film Showcase, an arm of the Lamorinda Film and Entertainment Foundation (LFEF), began in January 2011 presenting (for one week a month) a local area premiere of an acclaimed international film not available on home media or television. 🎞 Visit the International Film Showcase website for tickets and showtimes.
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