

A lawyer trades his penthouse for poverty and discovers class isn't just about money—it's in your bones.
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Acting
Darroussin's cringe-perfect embodiment of a man cosplaying working-class.
Direction
Darroussin directs himself with brutal, unsparing clarity.

Director
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Darroussin shot this in just 24 days on a shoestring budget, casting several actual residents of the Belleville neighborhood as extras.