At Work

A successful photographer walks away from the career that sustained him in order to write, and finds poverty waiting where he expected freedom. From that one clean sentence of a premise the film builds something quietly severe: a study of the gap between a vocation and a living, and of what happens to a person's dignity once the money stops arriving. It is a story told in small humiliations and stubborn persistence rather than dramatic turns.

This suits viewers drawn to sparse character studies and unhurried European rhythms, comfortable with a film that observes more than it explains. At 1h 32m it stays lean, and the pacing is deliberate rather than driven. Expect close attention to work, money and self-regard, with humour that arrives dry when it arrives at all. Worth seeking out if you like films about creative ambition that refuse to romanticise the cost of it.