Cassandra, a 26-year-old flight attendant played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, works for a low-cost airline based in Lanzarote. She diligently takes on extra shifts and performs her duties with mechanical precision. During her sparse free time, she goes with the flow and floats between Tinder meetings and binge drinking parties. However, when she unexpectedly gets fired, she must return home and confront the problems she had been running away from.
One of the questions Rien à Foutre (Zero Fucks Given) poignantly asks, is how one can grow into becoming a human being in while working in an environment that treats its employees as mere functional objects. The film premiered in Cannes and won several prestigious prizes but didn’t get a general cinema release in the Netherlands, while its smart camerawork and meticulously excecuted art direction certainly deserve a big screen.
AWL_048 Rien à Foutre a.k.a. Zero Fucks Given
by Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre
2021, Belgium/France, 110 min., French with English subtitles
12 October 2022
start program: 20:30h
pre sale tickets: WORM
Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam