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Human Resources [Region 2]
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3453277863835
Format: PAL
Languages: French (Original Language),
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: January 15, 2000
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Rating:  - Management vs. labor in a contemporary French setting
I thought this was played in a rather too pedestrian manner until near the end when the unspoken conflict between the father and the son exploded. In a sense this is a story more or less a century behind its time. We have the factory and the bosses, and we have the workers whose labor is exploited by those who own and control the capital. We have the union organizers who are little different from those who long ago sought a worker's paradise while employing communist tactics.
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Rating: - real people, real issues
"Human Resources" is an excellent docudrama about labor issues in France following the instatement of the 35-hour work week (a measure taken to help remedy the country's unemployment crisis). The film has a wonderfully realistic tone and authentic characters coping with the challenges of everyday life in the modern world. Director Laurent Cantent (of the superb "Time Out") has given us as substantive a look at public issues working themselves out in individual lives as we saw in Soderbergh's "Erin ... Read More
Rating: - Raw, Strong, Personal, Socioeconomic Cinematic Experience...
The film Human Resources illustrates the dilemma of when class differences clash as a young man from a lower class tries to rise to a higher class. The young man, Franck (Jalil Lespert), returns to his hometown to begin an internship for human resources at a local factory. Franck's father, a machinist, who is close to retirement, works for the same company that he is doing his internship for. Franck's childhood friends also work for the same company, and now Franck has to assume the role as a leader ... Read More
Rating: - Great Taut Working Class Drama
This is a surprisingly strong film about labor and family relations in small French suburb. This earlier feature by one of France's rising stars of Cinema (see his exceptional TIME OUT) is heart breaking in it's depection of factory life and the mutability of family ties. With excellent real life performances the films near documentary style only adds to it's power.
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