Unemployed grad snaps and takes a job center hostage — French rage cinema at its most desperate.
After five years of graduate studies, Red is always in search of a job and fight every day against the exclusion. Slowly, he is moving away from Anna, the love of his life. As a result of a letter to him meaning its cancellation, he makes it to the Agency for the employment, where he refuses an appointment. Having nothing more to lose, he then takes hostage the staff and the public. As a final appeal to the help, he is decided to save what remains of its dignity.
Acting
Steve Tran's Red simmers with wounded pride.
Direction
Senoussi turns fluorescent office lighting into psychological horror.
Director
Mehdi Senoussi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during France's gilets jaunes unrest, the film channels real anxieties about precarious youth and the collapse of social mobility promises.
The title 'Vaurien' (good-for-nothing) is what Red fears he's become — the film interrogates who gets to apply that label.
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