The 34th

9, 19/12

Broadway Cinematheque

French Cinepanorama

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Work Hard, Play Hard
　　 　　　　 　　新官上任  

Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré

2004 / Color 彩色 / 99 mins
Social Drama 社會劇情片
English Subtitles 英文字幕

Director 導演：
Jean-Marc Moutout 尚馬克．穆濤

Cast 演員： Jérômie Rénier,
Laurent Lucas, Cylia Malki
謝洛美．漢尼耶、羅朗．盧卡士、施莉亞．馬爾姬

Office work and its horrors have increasingly become a central theme of recent French cinema, notably in films by Philippe Harel (the Houellebecq adaptation Whatever ) and Laurent Cantet (Human Resources ). Jean-Marc Moutout's film offers further insight into the world of ambitious young execs on the make, on the loose and on the fast track to moral perdition. Jérémie Rénier ( The Child , La Promesse ) plays a young trainee newly signed up with a high-powered Parisian consulting firm, and placed under the tutelage of a company hotshot (Laurent Lucas), who walks the walk, talks the talk and brooks no argument.

Sent to the provinces to oversee the audit of a metal company, he soon realises his task is to prepare the way for redundancies all round, and feels the pull of a less compromised life with his single-mother girlfriend back in Paris. But things aren't that easy.

This film was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the 2003 Locarno International Film and it was nominated Best First Work and Most Promising Actor at the Cesar awards 2005.

有關寫字樓工作及其中的苦況已成為近年法國電影的中心主題，其中的代表作有菲力普．阿希爾的《我無所謂》（改編自 Houellebecq 的小說）和羅倫．康堤的《人力資源》。 尚馬克．穆濤導演的這部電影讓我們更深入暸解商場上那些年輕行政人員那急功近利、無節制以及道德敗壞的世界。謝洛美．漢尼耶（《孩子》、《承諾與背叛》）飾演一名剛進入巴黎一家規模龐大的顧問公司任見習職員的年輕人，而負責訓練他的是公司的一名紅人（羅朗．盧卡士飾），這人自視甚高，完全不接受任何爭辯或意見。

年輕人被派往外省負責督導一間鋼鐵公司的核數工作，他很快發現自己的工作其實是為公司的全線裁員作準備。他突然很懷念與身為單親母親的女友在巴黎那較簡單，不需要作出那麼多妥協的生活。但事實往往並不
是那麼簡單的。

本片分別獲提名二零零三年瑞士洛迦諾國際電影節的金豹獎及二零零五年凱撒最佳新作和最具潛質男演員獎。