For Olivia Dejazet (Marina Foïs), a famous crime novelist teaching writing to a group of
small - town teens in Laurent Cantet's The Workshop, that student is Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), an
angry young
man with an unhealthy interest in stories of mass murder.
Like Lumet's 12
Angry Men, the film is a tight ensemble stage play but operates more free - form: Lumet and his cinematographer, Boris Kaufman, sequentially changed focal lengths so the jury room looks
smaller and
smaller as the drama progresses.
Juliet, Naked follows the intertwining stories of Duncan, a college professor in a
small English town whose one passion is for the music of Tucker Crowe; Duncan's girlfriend Annie, who is beginning to realize how
angry she is that she's just spent 15 years with a
man who loves Tucker Crowe more than her; and Tucker Crowe himself, who has been in near - seclusion in rural Pennsylvania since shortly after the release of his greatest album, Juliet, in 1986.