En Guerre

With stunning naturalism, Stéphane Brizé stages the battle of 1,100 workers against their factory shutting down.

Two years earlier, they had agreed to a wage freeze and unpaid overtime in exchange for guaranteed work. The executives of the profit-making factory rescind the agreement with such shameless demagoguery that you understand the urge to physical violence. En guerre is a loud, dirty war film with victims that only fall in the months and years after the battle.