Synopsis
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
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Cast
- Aurélien RecoingVincent
- Karin ViardMuriel
- Serge LivrozetJean-Michel
- Jean-Pierre Mangeotle père de Vincent
- Monique Mangeotla mère de Vincent
- Didier PerezPhilippe
- Philippe Jouannetle directeur des ressources humaines
Recommendations
- 100
Rolling Stone
Recoing gives a performance that won't soon be forgotten. Neither will Time Out. It's a great movie. - 100
Christian Science Monitor
Cantet has rich insights into this material, and brings them alive through sensitive acting and powerful filmmaking. - 100
The New Yorker
This movie makes one grateful that a serious European art cinema still exists. [15 April 2002, p. 88] - 90
Chicago Reader
Powerful. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Not just an especially subtle and thoughtful psychological drama, it's a provocative, even an unnerving one as well. - 80
Film Threat
This is brilliant filmmaking. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Look carefully at that final scene; few happy endings have ever felt so downbeat. - 80
Village Voice
Recoing's meta-performance is an unemphatic marvel, his placid countenance stretched tight over telltale flickers: a quickly suppressed smirk of incredulous delight, a nervous twitch of chagrin, an abrupt pang of guilt.
