Stéphane Brizé closes out his loose trilogy on work and dignity with Another World, a 2022 French drama that trades factory floors for a corner office without losing any of its author's cold precision.
What is Another World about?
Philippe, a plant director, is told to cut a fifth of his workforce even as he privately fights to hold his marriage and his teenage son's crisis together. The film follows him across boardrooms, a family kitchen, and a psychiatric ward waiting room, refusing to treat any one of those spaces as more important than the others. Vincent Lindon plays the executive with the same worn restraint he brought to Brizé's earlier films, while Sandrine Kiberlain, as his estranged wife, gets scenes that argue the marriage collapsed long before the layoffs did. Anthony Bajon appears as the son whose breakdown forces Philippe to see what his job has cost him. Brizé shoots meetings and dinners with the same unflinching camera, so a shareholder call carries the same weight as a hospital visit. The point is not that capitalism ruins one good man; it is that the logic of the balance sheet has quietly become the logic of the household too.
About the cast
Vincent Lindon anchors the film with a performance built on restraint rather than outbursts, letting small physical tells carry scenes that could easily have tipped into speechmaking. Sandrine Kiberlain matches him beat for beat as a woman who has already made her decision and is simply waiting for him to catch up. Anthony Bajon, in a smaller but pivotal role, gives the son's collapse an unforced, almost matter-of-fact quality that keeps the film from turning melodramatic.
Context & significance
Another World is French director Stéphane Brizé's third film examining labor and its human cost, following his earlier studies of a factory worker and a striking plant. Here he moves up the org chart to the person who signs the layoff orders, widening the frame from shop floor to executive suite while keeping the same interest in how economic pressure travels into private life. The shift in class perspective is deliberate: Brizé has said he wanted to show that no rung of the ladder is insulated from the same forces.
Watching Another World on Ktime
Another World streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow Brizé's dialogue-heavy scenes either way. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login, and the platform's Farsi interface makes browsing and playback straightforward for the Iranian diaspora audience it serves.