In Between Two Worlds Marianne (Juliette Binoche) is first seen waiting in a line at a crowded job referral office, people jostling around her, frustrated by the wall of bureaucracy, desperate for work. She gets a job with a cleaning company, goes through rigorous training, and then suffers through a series of gigs, scrubbing toilets and wiping down office desks in the dead of night.
She finally gets a job with a crew who cleans the Ouistreham ferry (which travels from Caen to Portsmouth twice a day). The job is described in fearsome terms as a “commando op”: the crew has to clean 230 rooms twice a day, four minutes per room. The hours are brutal, the work grueling. This is a world where everyone struggles; no one has a car, no one has two coins to throw together, no one has leisure time, no time to make plans or even think.
But Marianne has a secret. She’s actually a journalist working undercover. She has heard about the “crisis” of unemployment, of the “invisible” population of people struggling in these precarious jobs with no stability. She wants to make it real for herself; she wants to not just see it with her own eyes but experience it. She wants to write a book about her time with these “cleaning ladies.”
Between Two Worlds (French: Ouistreham) is a 2021 French drama film directed by Emmanuel Carrère, loosely based on Florence Aubenas’s 2010 autobiographical book The Night Cleaner. The film stars Juliette Binoche. The film had its world premiere as the opening film of the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on July 7, 2021. The film was released on August 11, 2023 in the United States by Cohen Media Group.
Between Two Worlds (2023)
Ouistreham
Directed by: Emmanuel Carrère
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Hélène Lambert, Léa Carne, Évelyne Porée, Patricia Prieur, Émily Madeleine, Louise Pociecka, Steve Papagiannis, Jérémy Lechevallier, Nathalie Lecornu
Screenplay by: Emmanuel Carrère, Hélène Devynck
Production Design by: Sébastien Gondek, Julia Lemaire
Cinematography by: Patrick Blossier
Film Editing by: Albertine Lastera
Costume Design by: Isabelle Pannetier
Set Decoration by: Virginie Destiné
Music by: Mathieu Lamboley
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Memento Distribution (France), Cohen Media Group (United States)
Release Date: 7, July 2021 (Cannes), January 12, 2022 (France), August 11, 2023 (United States)
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