Une employée modèle
2002 Thriller / Drama / Romance
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Summary
François Maurey is the managing director of a small but successful IT company.
Whilst driving home one night, he encounters a young woman, Florence, who begs him to
protect her from her aggressive husband. This intrusion into François’s
life could hardly have come at a worse time. He is on the point of divorcing his
wife and he is being harangued night and day by a rival American firm him to sell one
of his products, the revolutionary X27. François tries to keep Florence
at arm's length but soon succumbs to her charms. He gives her a job in his company
and takes her as his lover. Can it be a coincidence that at this point his
life and his career suddenly begin to fall apart...?
Review
Une employée modèle is a spectacularly
poor attempt to emulate an old fashioned kind of American thriller, badly scripted and
lacking any real inspiration both on the direction and acting front. With its badly
drawn characters and a risibly naive plot that reveals a total lack of understanding about
the IT industry, the film is little more than a tedious compendium of tired clichés
of the kind you’d be very lucky to find in a bad American movie these days.
It’s almost heart-wrenching to see actors of the calibre of François Berléand
and Bruno Todeschini squandering their talents in such a juvenile and thoroughly vacuous
endeavour as this.
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