Zero Fucks Given

2021

1 hr. 50 min.

Comedy

Drama

List

95%

22 Reviews

Tomatometer

67%

50+ Ratings

Audience Score

Cassandra (26) is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she's always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home. Will she find the force to confront what she was running away from?

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Critics Consensus

With bleak humor, Adèle Exarchopoulos takes us on an airborne Zero Fucks Given tour as she tries to outrun grief subconsciously propelled by her desire to live.

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Rich S

Mubi lured me to a one-week trial with a better movie, but this one was a must-watch based on the name alone. Had I known anything about the movie, it would have been a no-go. And definitely a never-again.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/08/23

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Andrena A

It was interesting. It deals with a theme which is very recurrent when you are in your late 20s and they were able to make me fell this sensation of being lost and uncomfortable, but at the same time knowing that you have your whole life ahead. In terms of cinematography, it didn't really blow my mind.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/26/23

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Kevin L

A nice bit of work here by the writing/directing team of Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre. We see the life of 26-yr. old Cassandre, a young woman who enjoys the freedom and detachment of her life while also dedicated to her work as an airline attendant. Thing is, life is tough for all of us, decent people or rat bastards. Cassandre doesn't walk the line of perfection in her job, and so is penalized by the hypocritical airline attendant rules. This is where the title comes in, at least in part. She is given extra chances cuz she has good sales (of course), and no doubt also because of her looks and competence. I feel the title is indicative of Cassandre and so many other young people like her. You're now an adult, employed and free to find out who you are and be that person. Cassandre plays the tough, free-wheelin' 20-something, who enjoys the casual encounter and partying. Her employer only minds to the point it might cost them some penalty or the odd rider, but they can also suspend or release her from a contract cuz she is so easily replaceable with so many others training for the position; and they can pay them less than someone with Cassandre's experience. So the 'zero f##ks' that are given attitude is more of a facade for her, but it's more the reality of the airline industry in replacing you. Standout work by the gorgeous Adèle Exarchopoulos in the lead role of Cassandre. She shows off the maturity of a composed actor but also the youthfulness of someone a bit adrift in her life, caught between the point of showing herself worthy of being given a f##k about, of someone deserving of respect and appreciation, and a person of the age and stature who gets all that automatically. We also see so much of the indifference and resignation she feels about her job and its routine just in her expressions and body language. It's a most impressive performance. Not sure about the late scene looking for the car her mother had been driving. But I am sure about how the film was shot and the fine camera work by Olivier Boonjing. He does a fine job of showing perspective between characters and also capturing the cities/locations of the film, and certainly the absurd near-fantasy look of Dubai. 3.2 stars

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/24/23

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Mauro L

(Mauro Lanari) - I'm sure that if we don't do anything things will get worse. - Yeah, but I don't really believe in change... We're not the same age, so what we can sacrifice isn't the same. - Don't believe in change? Meaning? What about the future? - I don't even know if I'll be alive tomorrow. The film goes on like this for about 40 minutes, and is extraordinary, with the dialogues, editing, costumes, make-up, in the sharp and lashing description of the human condition. Then 26-year-old Cassandre sheds a tear thinking about the change of ownership of the mother's mobile phone to herself, and the feature-length debut by Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre brings us back to the usual double track of sociological explanation on the alienating "gig economy" and on that of the "character study" with the psychological explanation of an unelaborated mourning, as if death needed particular reasons to prevail over existence. Adèle Exarchopoulos removes make-up, stops being interested in the sexual vitalism of the title, agrees to confront her family and wears a new mask, this time more integrated and comformist.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/02/24

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Audience Member

A brutally honest insight into the world of a flight attendant, which slowly unfolds into the story of how a young woman responds to the trauma of loss. And an incredible, enigmatic performance from Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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li x

Boring slow-paced film. I didn't have any emotions and any bonds with characters. Just video record of a anyone's life, who underwent hard lose of someone close, and now drifting and going with the flow, trying to forget about it and get away of tragic thoughts. And its not a comedy, even a little. Sad movie.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Emmanuel Marre

Director

Julie Lecoustre

Director

Adèle Exarchopoulos

Cassandre

Alexandre Perrier

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Mara Taquin

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Emmanuel Marre

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David Ehrlich

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Lecoustre and Marre’s hypnotic feature debut is richer and more textured for how it sees that lifestyle through the eyes of a crew member instead of a passenger.

Rated: B

Mar 30, 2022

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Gary M. Kramer

Salon.com

The filmmakers overperform in showing the monotony of the profession. That is a compliment and a criticism.... The biggest problem with "Zero F**ks Given" is that, truth in titling, it never quite engenders the emotions it should.

Oct 17, 2021

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Jordan Mintzer

Hollywood Reporter

A strange and charming debut feature by directors Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre.

Jul 15, 2021

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Hector A. Gonzalez

InSession Film

Zero Fucks Given succeeds because it captures the existential irresolution that many people face nowadays.

Rated: B

Jul 25, 2023

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Q.V. Hough

Vague Visages

Exarchopoulos continues to be a daring and transcendent performer; she is expensive in the best way possible.

May 6, 2023

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Ezequiel Boetti

Otroscines.com

The movie works as a reverse of the millennial ideology that preaches travel as a cure-all. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Mar 27, 2023

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Synopsis

Cassandra (26) is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she's always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home. Will she find the force to confront what she was running away from?

Director: Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre
Screenwriter: Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 30, 2022