The undercover journalist in the film “Between Two Worlds,” loosely based on a true story, finds the hardship she expects from jobs with minimum pay. But she also discovers something else: friendship and joy.
Arriving at dawn, making 60 beds an hour, and scrubbing toilets is onerous. Whatever camaraderie exists, these workers' lives remain hard. Though, the film does not offer an explicit critique of the system that sustains this kind of exploitative labor.
"It's a commando op. 90 minutes, not a second more." Cohen Media Group has revealed the new official US trailer for an indie film from France titled Between Two Worlds, also known as Ouistreham. This first premiered in 2021 at the Cannes Film Festival and is finally getting a US theatrical release this August over
Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche), a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences financial instability and social invisibility first-hand. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity, strong bonds shared by these behind-the-scenes working women. Based on French journalist Florence Aubenas's bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham.