GRAND CENTRAL World Cinema

Anything can go wrong at the nuclear power plant where Gary Manda (portrayed by the boyish Tahar Rahim) is recruited as a low-level worker – each day is a perilous struggle against the “colorless, odorless, invisible dose” of radiation. Gary is quickly adopted into the motley community of workers who must daily entrust each other with their lives. The attraction between Gary and the sultry gamine Karole (Cannes darling Léa Seydoux) is immediate, and the two embark on a moonlit affair, unbeknownst to Karole’s fiancé Toni (Denis Ménochet). Inevitably, Gary is compelled to make a choice, as love, health and money begin to elude him. In this follow-up to her debut feature BELLE EPINE (2010), writer-director Rebecca Zlotowski deftly weaves between the unfolding personal dramas and the starkly realistic, high-risk technical operations at the steely gray plant, which always seems to tower forebodingly in the landscape. GRAND CENTRAL was selected for the Un Certain Regard at Cannes.