A poetic film about daily working life that captures the spirit of political change in 1970s France. Two years after Jean-Luc Godard made his film about class struggle in a factory, Tout va bien, Louis Malle completed this fascinating portrait of life for the employees of a Citroën auto factory in Rennes, Brittany. Malle was raised in that area, albeit in an affluent family, but it is his understanding of the people that makes this more than a political portrait about the proletariat. It is a superbly made fly-on-the-wall film that captures the daily lives of the workers and the humdrum activity of their working life. Occasionally, Malle cuts away to wealthy consumers make a political point, but this is ultimately an involving portrait of ordinary lives.