What a great film, totally awesome. A movie that glues you to your seat, although this is not a suspense movie at the start. But it becomes so, more than any thriller.
The story of a struggle for a Young female employee to keep her job after the decision from her manager to fire her. The same manager who just before gave the choice to the other employees: to fire the woman and give a big Bounty to all of them OR keep the female and NO BOUNTY for everyone...
A cruel choice given by the manager.
So, all along the film, you Watch the poor woman trying to persuade one by one her colleagues to give up their Bounty so that she can be kept in the company.
Cruel at the most.
It's a pure sacrilege to miss such a film. A terrific study of the human nature, the human behaviour at its best but also at its worst. Sometimes during the movie, I nearly wept, and at other moments, I wanted to howl. I was disgusted by some characters.
A movie that Ken Loach could have made, but maybe with more humor...
The sequence where Marion Cotillard tries to commit suicide, with so much calm, in a so meticulous way, this reminded me the nearly same sequence in ROSETTA - also directed by the Dardenne brothers - when Emilie Dequennnes tried to take her own life.
A pure masterpiece. you can't live without seeing such a pure gem.
The story of a struggle for a Young female employee to keep her job after the decision from her manager to fire her. The same manager who just before gave the choice to the other employees: to fire the woman and give a big Bounty to all of them OR keep the female and NO BOUNTY for everyone...
A cruel choice given by the manager.
So, all along the film, you Watch the poor woman trying to persuade one by one her colleagues to give up their Bounty so that she can be kept in the company.
Cruel at the most.
It's a pure sacrilege to miss such a film. A terrific study of the human nature, the human behaviour at its best but also at its worst. Sometimes during the movie, I nearly wept, and at other moments, I wanted to howl. I was disgusted by some characters.
A movie that Ken Loach could have made, but maybe with more humor...
The sequence where Marion Cotillard tries to commit suicide, with so much calm, in a so meticulous way, this reminded me the nearly same sequence in ROSETTA - also directed by the Dardenne brothers - when Emilie Dequennnes tried to take her own life.
A pure masterpiece. you can't live without seeing such a pure gem.