Marie-Line

This is a story about a women-only cleaning team for a supermarket in the suburbs of a large city in a somewhat bleak part of France. The team leader is played by squat actress Muriel Robin, previously known mostly for her one-woman comic shows. Her character is hard working, driven, uncompromising, often harsh, and she covets a prize for best cleaning team of the supermarket.

Despite this, despite being affiliated along with her flailing husband to a far-right political party, and despite being abused by the store manager, she reveals a tenderness for her (often illegal aliens) teammates, that is simply stunning and overwhelming. This is probably Mehdi Charef's best film to date, profoundly moving and intelligent. It was without a doubt one of the 2 best movies i saw in 2000.

A provocative film about illegal aliens, power of women, cleaning in night of a supermarket, abuses of boss and an iron lady , offering chance to young women, heping one of them in birth context and having care by boy of an expulsed immigrant family.

Her husband, helped in each aspect , has a new love, her daughter is mother and she fix the relation with father of baby, and the only vunerability of this real tough woman seems the passion for Joe Dassin.

Muriel Robin offers a great portrait of Marie Line, reminding the art of a Simone Signoret. And this makes this film more a familiar French social analysis of sensitive themes but a profound inspired portrait of characters and authentic humanity.