My Piece of the Pie
Comedy, Drama
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2011
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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...
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
109 min
Release date:
16 Mar 2011
Country:
FR
Languages:
English, French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
N/A
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
True, the movie sidesteps a couple of cliches it seems headed directly toward, but I might have preferred them to the preposterous melodrama it substitutes.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
2 Feb 2012
fresh:
Paints an alluring picture of a pan-European cosmopolitan culture whose characters hopscotch from one country to another with hardly a second thought in a lighthearted floating party.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
8 Dec 2011
fresh:
A stirring if occasionally over-obvious clash of capital and labor.
– Mark Jenkins,
NPR,
8 Dec 2011
fresh:
A Euro gloss on Pretty Woman suddenly turns into Occupy Gaul.
– Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York,
6 Dec 2011
rotten:
A feeble stab at topicality from that master of overripe Gallic melodrama, Cedric Klapisch.
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
6 Dec 2011