My Piece of the Pie
- sombre
Sombre, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...
Our read · My Piece of the Pie (2011) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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