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Actors: Jacques Dufilho, Luce Marquand
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about A Full Day's Work
A FULL DAY'S WORK (Une Journée Bien Remplie) is a movie written and directed by French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant in 1973.

The baker Jacques Dufilho has decided to kill the nine jurors who have condemned his only son to death. Every murder has been carefully prepared but the police have understood the link between the murders and doesn't make Dufilho's task easier.

--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar


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Plot
Time/era of movie: - 1960's-1970's
Crime & Scandal Yes
Vigilante/Revenge? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - small businessman
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed
Hair color? - brunette (Black)
Hair type - (man) bald
Body type - (man) average
Events of movie makes character more... - sad
Ethnicity/Nationality - French
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - a deadline

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm
Misc setting - fort/military installation - theater

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel... - very happy
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - French
Subtitles? - Yes
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
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