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Movie Info

When young Antoine goes to a summer writing workshop, well-respected novelist Olivia is assigned to help him with his project. Antoine's provocative, aggressive behavior intrigues Olivia, who finds herself drawn to him.

Genre:

drama, mystery and thriller
Original Language:

French (France)
Director:

Laurent Cantet
Writer:

Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo
Release Date (Theaters):

Mar 23, 2018 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Jun 19, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA):

$20.6K
Runtime:

1h 53m
Production Co:

Archipel 35, France 2 Cinéma
Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Marina Foïs
Olivia Dejazet

Matthieu Lucci
Antoine

Florian Beaujean
Etienne

Mamadou Doumbia
Bouba

Mélissa Guilbert
Lola

Warda Rammach
Malika

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Critic Reviews for The Workshop

All Critics (43) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (5)

The movie suffers from an anticlimactic ending, but as in The Class, the ensemble scenes are electric.

April 13, 2020 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
Workshop is right: it feels like the makers are rummaging around trying to find a movie.

November 16, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Trevor Johnston
Little White Lies
As storytelling, it's just not quite a filling meal, for all the feints being made towards a heart-of-darkness journey into French far-right thinking. Even so, there's a great deal to chew on...

November 15, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
If the film's first half is an art-house talk piece, the second half is a drame à thèse crisping into a thriller.

November 14, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
"The Workshop" never lets us know exactly what anyone really thinks. These tantalizing clues only add to the film's allure.

April 11, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Alan Zilberman
Washington Post
The leads are excellent...anchoring Cantet's sincere, complex mixture of discourse and voyeurism, as if the undiluted teacher/student naturalism of his 2008 film "The Class" had fermented into something more volatile.

April 5, 2018 | Full Review…

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
With a subtle touch, French filmmaker Laurent Cantet (The Class, 2008) takes on xenophobia, racism and alienation (and presumably support for the National Front) among young people in his fiction film, The Workshop.

February 21, 2021 | Full Review…

Joanne Laurier
World Socialist Web Site
The kids in the workshop are articulate and argue with righteous passion. Through densely, thoughtfully composed debates between them, the film touches on a variety of hotly topical subject matters including race, national identity and terrorism.

October 16, 2019 | Full Review…

Zhuo-Ning Su
Awards Daily
Some credit is due to Cantet for making a go at a more relevant film. There's something nice about watching a film that can command so much attention out of seven characters just talking about how to build a story.

June 5, 2019 | Full Review…

C.J. Prince
The Cinessential
A chilling and ultimately hopeful portrait of a world looking for a common connection in all the wrong places.

June 3, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
Alexei Sayle once cautioned that you should never enter a workshop that doesn't have a vice in it. French writer-director Laurent Cantet's new film The Workshop soon reveals that though it's not that kind of workshop, he is still able to turn the screws.

December 28, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

John Bleasdale
CineVue
It's simply yet elegantly shot and the central performances really are worth watching. And in its own way it is, in troubled times, a beacon of hope.

November 21, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film