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Director
Rebecca Zlotowski
Cast
Léa Seydoux,
Tahar Rahim,
Olivier Gourmet,
Denis Ménochet,
Johan Libéreau,
Nozha Khouadra
Genre
Drama,
Romance
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
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The Playlist by Jessica Kiang
Zlotowski has turned in a beguiling film that impresses as much for its oddly specific and well-researched setting (the ragtag community of lower-grade workers at a nuclear power plant), as for the romance, and maintains impressive narrative and tonal control right up until an ending that falters just at the final hurdle.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Some critics have expressed reservations about melodrama and overworked symbolism, but I found it gripping, with an edge of delirium.
Total Film by James Mottram
Seydoux again offers a frank turn, while Rahim and Ménochet add real class.
CineVue by John Bleasdale
Zlotowski's Grand Central is a fascinating film on an urgent and seldom-explored situation.
The Telegraph by Tim Robey
[Zlotowski] creates a situation, casts it perfectly, and backs out of a fully achieved story. As drama, it’s coitus interruptus, with a Geiger counter doing the interrupting.
Empire by David Parkinson
A gripping if occasionally overwrought drama radiated by a standout turn from Seydoux.
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