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Work Hard, Play Hard (Violence des échanges en Milieu Tempéré) France
'Philippe Seigner is 25, with a promising career ahead of him. Having just graduated, he arrives in Paris from his provincial home town to join a large firm of business consultants. The morning of his first meeting at work he meets Eva, a young single mother, with whom he falls in love. Everything seems to be going so well. His first task is to prepare the still secret acquisition of a factory by a large conglomerate and he embarks on his mission with zeal. His initial reports are so impressive that his boss entrusts him with a new responsibility: to select personnel for the same business, once restructured' and sack the others.
'Jérémie Rénier as Philippe Seigner is perfectly cast, as perfect as the tight and lucid direction that shows with rare acuity the cynicism of a society that extols the cult of every man for himself.' -Locarno Film Festival
D Jean-Marc Moutout P Milena Poylo, Gilles Sacuto S Olivier Gorce, Jean-Marc Moutout, Jejou Herzog WS TS Productions L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/Col/2003/95mins
Jean-Marc Moutout was born in Marseille, France in 1966. Films include: No Time (1990, short), électrons Statiques (1998, short), Libre Circulation (2001).