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A Model Employee
François Maurey, the head of a computer company, has developed a product that's sought after by the Americans, but he refuses to sell it to them. While his wife Caroline is preparing to leave him after 25 years of marriage, François has to face various people in his life, including new arrival, Florence, a troubled and mysterious young woman who enters François's life and causes havoc.
| Release : | 2003 |
| Rating : | 4.4 |
| Studio : | |
| Crew : | Costume Design, Key Hair Stylist, |
| Cast : | François Berléand Delphine Rollin Nicole Calfan François Morel Steve Suissa |
| Genre : | Thriller |
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Excellent but underrated film
A Masterpiece!
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
"Une employée modèle" is commonly regarded as a poor movie by most, even as a flop by some. I would personally be less disparaging. After all, this is an unpretentious little thriller, designed mainly to entertain - and entertained I was.The plot revolves around François (François Berléand, more restrained than usual, and quite rightly so considering the role he plays), a software company owner in his fifties. A success in the working world (so much so that a big American corporation covets the new product he has just developed), he is a failure in his private life (he is unable to communicate properly with his daughter and his wife is leaving her after twenty-five years of marriage). He has become a perfect prey for femme fatale Florence...As I said before, I found this film fun to watch, although I have to admit that this is no masterpiece. Too clichéd (the ugly American shark) and far-fetched (the Marxist cop commissaire Bovary, named after Flaubert, what a mishmash!), "Une employée modèle" suffers mainly from its unbelievable last part.On the other hand, the first two thirds are not that bad, giving the viewer an insight into the everyday life of a small computer business in provincial France. And the three successive false endings - terribly unrealistic as they are - do get the plot moving again until the very last seconds.All in all, not such a bomb as announced. Rather a passable thriller, nothing to be ashamed of.
