Zero Fucks Given

What a great movie.

Authentic, out of life and totally real.

Dreams, hopes and traumas meet reality.

Great authentic actors who convince all along the line.

This movie is honestly superb. Perfect capture of a flight attendant’s usual life. And it covers just about anything. Belgians do know how to make a great movie. If you’re a fan of lifestory movies then you’ll definitely like it. I just dont see what does the title have to do with anything in this movie.

_Zero Fucks Given_ is like Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 because after it takes off, no one knows what happens to it.

_Zero Fucks Given_ is the story of Cassandre, a flight attendant for a low cost airline, and her struggles to give a fuck.

The choice of fight attendant as the main character's job is brilliant, because Cassandre is in over her head, both literally and figuratively. Ironically, she's not going anywhere in her life, unless it's in a circle, like a an air crew member constantly returning back to her base. In fact, despite being in a plane on a one-way flight, she's still lost.

The film is very French in that what little story there is comes to us in bits and pieces, and even when the film ends we realize we don't have enough pieces to get the full picture, but that's OK.

That's OK, because the real film is Cassandre herself, and Adèle Exarchopoulos definitely has a lot of fucks to give because she turns in what is probably her best performance since she exploded onto the screen with _Blue is the Warmest Color_. Her capacity to conjure up a myriad of emotions in minutes, with only the slightest environmental cues, is nothing short of magical.

For example, in one scene she's talking on the phone to a telemarketer and we slowly witness her visage dissolve over the course of several minutes until her face collapses and tears roll down her face.

Ms Exarchopoulos carried the whole film, to be sure, but often we get the impression that there was nothing for her to carry, that the flight she was on ran out of fuel at more than once during our journey.

Still, no matter how much this movie tries to push you away, Adèle Exarchopoulos's magnetism pulls you back in. The movie may not move you, but Adèle Exarchopoulos will make sure you have some fucks to give.

[FICX'21] Slavery to shitty jobs wrapped in image culture. The escape seems difficult in a society that sows seeds to collect manure. The intention is clear, but the development is bland, more insubstantial than it should be. Perhaps because the attempt to denounce and indoctrinate is too evident.