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  1. Dec 9, 2011 · A scene from "My Piece of the Pie," Cédric Klapisch's film about a businessman who hires a housekeeper. When Stéphane’s ex-wife, without notice, drops off their 3-year-old son, Alban (Lunis...

  2. Plot. Filmed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and exploring themes of globalization, class distinctions and income inequality, the film opens in the French seaside town of Dunkirk. France (Karin Viard), a middle-aged divorcée, has just been laid off after 20 years at the same shipping company. She takes an overdose of pills but ...

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  4. One of the opening scenes of My Piece of the Pie is a shot of an oceanic coast, which locates us on the map. The story of the film takes off as we hear about the suicide attempt of France, a 40-something single mother of three, laid off from the factory for which she worked for 20 years.

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  5. Dec 8, 2011 · In its frenetic opening sequence, My Piece of the Pie seems to be following the same model: Klapisch cuts between a birthday party in Dunkirk and an investment firm in London, with an...

  6. A boss who doesn't know how to be human. Roger Ebert February 01, 2012. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Writer-director Cedric Klapisch supplies a little of all five in "My Piece of Pie," a film about the everyday ways in which the markets deal in abstract numbers without the slightest interest in the lives that might be affected.

  7. Dec 7, 2011 · Much of Klapisch's work has spanned the gamut of countries and emotions, but his latest film "My Piece of the Pie" is at once a smaller film in scale and a bigger one in scope as he shows the fallout from the global financial crisis of 2008 through the eyes of a callous day trader (Gilles Lellouche) and the woman he hires to clean his apartment ...