My Piece of the Pie

Ma part du gâteau

France

2011

109 Min

Color

2.35:1

French, English

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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CAST Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, Audrey Lamy, Jean-Pierre Martins, Zinedine Soualem, Raphaële Godin, Fred Ulysse, Kevin Bishop, Philippe Lefèbvre, Xavier Mathieu, Tim Pigott-Smith

MUSIC Loïc Dury, Christophe Minck

SOUND Olivier Dandré, Cyril Moisson

Tribeca (Spotlight), Vancouver (Spotlight on France)

Synopsis

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk, in northern France. The factory she worked at has closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. She enrolls in a training course to become a cleaner and soon finds a job at the home of a man whose world is radically different from her own. The man, named Steve, is a successful trader working between the City of London and the Defense district of Paris. These two individuals’ paths cross, bringing France in contact with people who live a life of luxury, until she discovers that this attractive and likable man is partly responsible for the closure of the factory where she used to work. –uniFrance

Director

Cédric Klapisch

Cédric Klapisch is one of today’s most popular French Director and his movies have regularly hit the French box office. Born in 1961, he worked on his first short films in the United States from 1983 to 1985. He started out as a DOP to finally become a film director. In 1989, his short film Ce qui me meut wins several prizes, one being the Perspectives of French Cinema Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival. He then directs his first feature in 1992, Little Nothings, which was nominated for the Cesars. His second, Good Old Daze, wins the 1993 Golden FIPA and Grand Prize at the 1994 Chamrousse Humour Film Festival.

In 1996, When the Cat’s Away is released, followed by Family Resemblances, his fourth feature which is awarded numerous prizes including three Cesars and the 1997 Lumière for Best Screenplay and Best Director. Maybe, starring Romain Duris and Jean-Paul Belmondo, is released in French cinemas in 1999. In 2002, Klapisch comes back to social comedy with The Spanish… read more