One fine day, Agnès Tessier decides to change her life. She leaves school to go and live with her friend Florence on the top floor of an apartment building in a slum district. She soon finds a job with a chemical company. When her colleague Muriel is sacked for not answering her boss's advances, Agnès is so incensed she becomes the trade union representative. In doing so, she challenges a world ruled by violence, a world in which anyone can go crazy at any time.This film by Brisseau - his first on 16 mm - was misunderstood and never released. It is a tender and violent work, a red film noir into which the era, the 1970s, is etched deeply. It is a film that reveals fury and provides an explosive view of the world. A crafted film, devoid of mannerisms. La vie comme ça offers a sharp and cutting picture of the economic crisis, feminism, trade unions, urban misery, modern violence, loneliness and despair. (Jacques Déniel)
- Director
- Jean-Claude Brisseau
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1981
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 96'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Language
- French
- Producers
- Jean-Claude Brisseau, INA - institut nat. de l'audiovisuel
- Screenplay
- Jean-Claude Brisseau
- Sound Design
- Alain Fournier