God's Offices

2008 ""

God's Offices

6.2 | 2h2m | en | Drama

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

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6.2 | 2h2m | en | Drama , Comedy | More Info

Released: November. 05,2008 | Released Producted By: Ciné-@ , La Parti Production Country: France Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

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Cast

Anne Alvaro , Nathalie Baye , Michel Boujenah

Director

Philippe Van Leeuw

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Ciné-@ , La Parti Production

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Anne Alvaro

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Reviews

mercywright "Entre les murs" (2008, France) wins prizes at Cannes, and is nominated for a Foreign Language Oscar while not much is heard about the very similar movie, "Les Bureaux de Dieu" (2008, also France). Both films use similar techniques - assigning documentary dialogues to non-actors, and the effect is amazing. You don't know if you're watching a documentary or a feature film! Both movies seems like documentaries, since no rosy solutions are provided to the dramatic problems the teachers/social workers have to deal with. Both films are very talky, with no escape outside the confinement of class room/social services office, but the stories and conflicts presented here are so fascinating, you willingly stay with both films to the end.

writers_reign It looks like someone who read the script prior to shooting reminded Claire Simon that film is a visual medium and, having listened and agreed made the bizarre decision to punctuate what amounts to two hours of dialogue by panning continuously from person to person where it would be more appropriate to cut. The scenes themselves are punctuated by solo, duo and trio shots of the staff at the Family Planning clinic - the main, indeed only - setting of the movie, looking down on the city of Paris, for all I know in a symbolic statement that they are better than their clients, who people the city. I checked this one out blindly on the strength of the cast which includes Anne Alvaro, Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, Isabelle Carre and Emmanuel Mouret and reasoning that there was no way they could all get it wrong. We're talking semi-documentary here with a series of clients coming to the clinic and talking at length to one or more of the staff. Seems Claire Simon thinks talk is the best contraception.