Mi piace lavorare - Mobbing (2004)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Francesca Comencini

Writer:

Francesca Comencini (writer)

Release Date:

13 February 2004 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A woman comes across the difficulties of modern work: to force her to resign from her job, her firm tries all the humiliation techniques known as "mobbing". The film is based upon real cases reported by Italian unions. |

Awards:

4 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Nicoletta Braschi	...	Anna
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Camille Dugay Comencini	...	Morgana
Rosa Matteucci	...	Medico fiscale
Alessio Sperati	...	Bartender

Also Known As:

I Like to Work (Mobbing) (International: English title)
I Love to Work (USA) (festival title)
Io lavoro (Italy) (working title)
Mi piace lavorare (Italy) (short title)
Mobbing (Italy) (alternative title)

Runtime:

Italy:89 min | USA:89 min | Argentina:89 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

BIM Distribuzione

Psychological drama that pits a worker against their boss? In America this would end a lot differently...

Italian actress Nicoletta Braschi plays a character that gets put through the corporate ringer and amazingly 'rolls with the punches' while trying to raise her latchkey daughter alone. Amazingly, she never loses control though what's being done to her certainly warrants a violent outburst. Apparently in Italy, what she goes through with her new manager at work in a technique called 'mobbing', where a new merging company is unable to fire longtime employees so they do everything possible to humiliate the worker to get them to quit on their own. During the course of the movie 'Anna' (Braschi) is transferred numerous times within the company to more and more demeaning jobs (she's put in charge of running the copy machine at one point) until finally ... well I don't want to spoil it for you. Suffice to say this is a very sobering account of unethical corporate policy and it is told very realistically with little or no humor at all (though some comic relief would have been gratefully appreciated by this reviewer). Good one to see if you want to get the heads up on a dirty practice that still goes on today in the corporate world.