Down-on-his-luck, unemployed Alexandre has two months to prove to his wife he can take care of his two young kids and be financially independent. Now, the thing is, although The Box, a user-friendly startup, wants to hire him on pro- bation, the company’s slogan is “No kids!” and Séverine, his future boss, is a short-tempered “killer”. So if Alexandre wants to land the job, he’s bound to lie... Will his meeting with Arcimboldo, an “entrepreneur of himself” and the king of online odd jobs, help the brave, disoriented Alexandre overcome all those challenges?
Acting
Sandrine Kiberlain's terrifyingly precise tech-bro manager energy
Writing
Podalydès brothers' surgical mockery of startup culture
Director
Bruno Podalydès
Denis Podalydès
Alexandre Duveteux
Sandrine Kiberlain
Séverine Cupelet
Bruno Podalydès
Arcimboldo
Yann Frisch
Aymeric
Leslie Menu
Sarah
Luàna Bajrami
Suzie
Michel Vuillermoz
le banquier
Jean-Noël Brouté
le ventouseur de chez Wyn Wyn
Isabelle Candelier
la femme d'affaires
Philippe Uchan
le chauffeur épuisé du VTC
Patrick Ligardes
le maire de Croisseuil
Florence Muller
Gisèle, le femme du maire et première adjointe de Croisseuil
Vanessa Paradis
Albane
Samuel Benchetrit
un passager d'Autoclock
Gábor Rassov
un passager d'Autoclock
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Denis and Bruno Podalydès are real-life brothers; this is their fourth collaboration, and Bruno cast Denis specifically to torture him with physical comedy.
The film satirizes France's 'French Tech' government initiative, which poured billions into startups while workers faced increasingly precarious conditions—the 'No kids' policy barely exaggerates real Silicon Valley-esque workplace cultures that reached Paris by the late 2010s.
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