Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- bleak
- witty
- melancholic
- quiet evening
- arthouse movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film's bleakly humorous portrait of low-cost airline labor and Adèle Exarchopoulos's engrossing performance.
What sets it apart
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Cassandre works flights, pursues meaningless relationships, and remains emotionally disconnected after her mother's death.
Cassandre faces contract changes, a base transfer, demotion, and strict low-cost airline policies.
Cassandre moves through flights, hookups, and repetitive routines with detached bleak humor.
Cassandre breaches company policy by caring for a distressed passenger and is punished professionally.
Films like Zero Fucks Given, and why
The Lost Daughter
shares intimate social realism, grief, precarious employment, and a searching central female performance
The Souvenir
shares workplace alienation, deadpan humor, emotional disconnection, and contemporary European realism
Frances Ha
shares bleak humor, drifting young adulthood, casual relationships, and understated emotional recovery
Two Days, One Night
shares labor-focused realism, institutional pressure, and a protagonist trying to reclaim agency
Movie Details
- Directors
- Julie Lecoustre, Emmanuel Marre
- Release Date
- 2022-03-02
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (465)
Cast
- Adèle Exarchopoulos
- Alexandre Perrier
- Mara Taquin
- Arthur Egloff
- Tamara Al Saadi
- David Martinez Pinon
- Jean-Benoît Ugeux
- Jonathan Sawdon
- Gilles Alexandre Bussutil
- Erwan Maillot
Common questions
- What is Zero Fucks Given about?
- A grieving flight attendant masks emotional collapse with low-cost airline routines, casual hookups, and relentless movement.
- What is Zero Fucks Given like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Zero Fucks Given as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Zero Fucks Given violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Zero Fucks Given as mild.
- What did critics think of Zero Fucks Given?
- Critics broadly praised the film's bleakly humorous portrait of low-cost airline labor and Adèle Exarchopoulos's engrossing performance.
- Which films are like Zero Fucks Given?
- Films with a similar feel include The Lost Daughter, The Souvenir, Frances Ha, and Two Days, One Night.
- How long is Zero Fucks Given?
- Zero Fucks Given runs 115 minutes.
