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Une employée modèle (2002)
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6 August 2003 (France) moreGenre:
ThrillerPlot:
François, in his early fifties, successfully runs a computer business in Normandy. He has recently developed... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Passable French thriller moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| François Berléand | ... | François Maurey | |
| Delphine Rollin | ... | Florence | |
| Nicole Calfan | ... | Caroline Maurey | |
| Bruno Todeschini | ... | Rolland | |
| François Morel | ... | Commissaire Bovary | |
| Leslie Phils | ... | Marianne Maurey | |
| Steve Suissa | ... | Le rocker | |
| Annick Blancheteau | ... | Christina | |
| Jean-Luc Porraz | ... | Loraz | |
| Hubert Saint-Macary | ... | Charles | |
| Geoffrey Bateman | ... | L'Américain | |
| Michel Baladi | ... | Gendarme usine | |
| Pierre Forest | ... | Gendarme motard | |
| Charlie Gnini | ... | Voyou | |
| Abdel Halis | ... | Voyou |
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A Model Employee (International: English title)One Model Employee (Canada: English title)
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Canada:89 min (Montréal World Film Festival)Country:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | USA:Not Rated | France:U | Singapore:R(A) (original rating)Filming Locations:
Calvados, FranceFun Stuff
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French visa # 93828 delivered on 22-2-2002. moreSoundtrack:
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
"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.