“Another world”: when capitalist machine strikes its own executives

In Stéphane Brizeé’s new film, Vincent Lindon embodies the boss of a business of a globalized group who fights to save his employees.

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Before started, around sentimental intrigues, Stéphane Bruzé’s career has been deported, in recent years, along a social line including his new film, another world, is the third opus. Brief reminder of previous episodes. In the Market Law (2015), Thierry, the unemployed, family to feed, accept, after a litany of humiliations, a vigilant position in a hypermarket. In the war (2018), a leader syndicalist of an Agen plant takes the lead of the workers’ struggle for maintaining their work instrument when management announces irrevocable closure.

Vincent Lindon, surrounded by non-professionals, is at the center of these two films that bear a sharp look at the cruel and dull violence of social relations, but also, of course, on the tear of an individual pushed by the Events to dislocate from its own environment.

We will not search for other reasons to another world, if not, now blatant, the socioprofessional rotation that Stéphane Brizeé proposes to endorse to his partner actor – who, we would put our hand in fire, Love it! Nervi of the patronat, then pure and hard aegetist, Vincent Lindon is promoted boss in another world. What it does very well, because all that Vincent Lindon at the cinema is damn the road, including a depressive bodyflat firefighter under anabolic (in the wonderful titanium, from Julia Ducourneau, rewarded by the Palme d’Or in Cannes EN 2021). We imagine it’s that, the sacred fire. So, the boss of another world is called Philippe Lemesle, and he is, to be precise, executive executive of a company that is part of a globalized group whose headquarters are in New York.

a foot fighting

And here are staff reduction guidelines, drastic, fall for the Group’s European sites, yet already set to adjusted section. Guidelines such as their application makes the burden of inhuman work and the functioning of the ingestible enterprise. But it is, important element of the case, that Philippe Lemesle is a boss endowed with a moral conscience. And that we have just moved a step too far the cursor of what he considers acceptable. Another world is the story of what comes from this rocking point that sees a senior setting implose, caught in the inapplicable guidelines of a decorreled direction of reality and the legitimate anger of the workers, that even though His own devotion to the company has made his family life a field of ruins.

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