Writer-director Siegrid Alnoy's chilly, disquieting first feature, an fuzzy anticapitalist critique rooted in disgust at the contemporary (read: American) tendency to confuse what you do for a living with who you are, vividly evokes a disturbing sense of free-floating alienation. Temp worker Christine Blanc (Sasha Andres) lives in a small town in the Rhone-Alpes region of France, a dramatically beautiful landscape studded with dreary superstores, office buildings, prefabricated housing developments and malls, empty sidewalks and crowded highways. Painfully out of synch with the world, Christine doesn't understand the subtleties of workplace protocol and can't make sm...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
102 mins