Benjamin invited us over to watch our first French film, Le Couperet, translated to The Ax. It had English subtitles so we could follow along well enough. It was about a man who lost his job when his company downsized. Two years later, he still had no job. He decided he would make up a fake company so he could see his competitor's resumes and compare them to his own to see how his is lacking. This resulted in him decided to go on a killing spree and kill the competitors who he thought had better resumes than him.
It is a comedy, but definitely a darker one. It probably hits home with a lot of French people, considering their unemployment rate is the highest it's been since 1995 at 10.4%. That's why it is so difficult for a foreigner to get a job in France, and why Jeremy's company had to work as hard as they did to get him over here. From 1995 to 2008, the unemployment rate steadily declined to about 7%, before increasing again. It has stayed in the 10% range for the past 2 1/2 years.
On a lighter note, the main actor, Jose Garcia, looks a lot like Tony Shalhoub, the main actor from the tv show Monk. Jose is a well known Franco-Spanish comedian who acts in many movies and performs in many skit shows, and was also the (French) voice of Mushu from Mulan and Alex the lion from Madagascar.
It is a comedy, but definitely a darker one. It probably hits home with a lot of French people, considering their unemployment rate is the highest it's been since 1995 at 10.4%. That's why it is so difficult for a foreigner to get a job in France, and why Jeremy's company had to work as hard as they did to get him over here. From 1995 to 2008, the unemployment rate steadily declined to about 7%, before increasing again. It has stayed in the 10% range for the past 2 1/2 years.
On a lighter note, the main actor, Jose Garcia, looks a lot like Tony Shalhoub, the main actor from the tv show Monk. Jose is a well known Franco-Spanish comedian who acts in many movies and performs in many skit shows, and was also the (French) voice of Mushu from Mulan and Alex the lion from Madagascar.