This is exactly the kind of movie which grows on you .It takes some time to take off and the first part begins to drag on till the confrontation happens .
Although on the dole (she's got the RSA,French minimum income),Constance (check the first name) has remained a self-assured woman,still believing that the Provinces world is still waiting for her and that she 'll make short work of any rivals .A go-getter ,she does her fitness trail every morning :to be supplanted by a rookie ,Audrey,is unthinkable. Audrey is younger,prettier ,not so naive as she appears first.It won't be long before she knows all the tricks of the trade."I 've slept with a man" she says to her"friend";pretty soon she's got the golden key to the labor market :a CDI (an open-ended contract,a permanent employee contract).It's the straw that breaks the camel's back! And the immoral ending makes sense ,even though when she sits in Audrey's office it may be short-lived for someone is watching her, with a puzzled look.
There is filler (many sex scenes and some nudity, scenes in a hospital, the night club)but every time Marina Fois and Josephine Jappy have a scene together ,it takes the film to stratospheric levels: pretending to make friends with Audrey, Constance goes out of her way to destabilize her rival,to discredit her in her boss's eyes.She urges her to follow her love Alexandre to Russia ("if it were New-York ,I would not think twice ,but Poutine,well ,it is not a safe place to be " " What do you know about it? Eloping with a true love is marvelous when you are young")
Another reason for which Constance hates Audrey is her youth :she's forty and she can't stand being ousted by a beginner .Hence the excellent scenes of the health trail when the older woman wants to prove her rival (and mainly prove to herself) she can leave her far behind .
A cruel tale of the labor market in which they're always at each other's throats.
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