The Macon Film Guild is pleased to announce the showing of “The Workshop” at the Douglass Theatre this Sunday, July 8. Showings will be at 2pm, 5pm, and 7:30pm with a discussion following the 2pm show. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Douglass Theatre located at 355 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Macon, Georgia 31201.

About the Film

France, Drama, 113 minutes, Unrated, 2017, Directed by Laurent Cantet

In a small French town, a group of young people attend a summer writing workshop and collaborate on a crime thriller with the help of Olivia, a famous novelist. The creative process will recall the town’s industrial past, a form of nostalgia to which one student, Antoine, feels indifferent. He clashes with the group and Olivia, who is at the same time alarmed and captivated by him.

What the Critics Say

• Rotten Tomatoes – 87%

• Rotten Tomatoes Top Critics – 88%

• MetaCritic – 76%

“Marina Foïs’s performance as Olivia pulls off a delicate balancing act. Even as Olivia emerges as a complicated character — an accomplished novelist with sympathy for her students as well as a surprisingly perverse imagination — she never quite sheds her remote cosmopolitan sheen. Olivia’s good intentions keep running aground with Antoine, played with taut intensity by Matthieu Lucci, in a bracing debut.” — The New York Times