Corporate (I) (2017) User Reviews

Very good movie with a message

[Vindelander · 7/10 · 15 July 2021]

Thoroughly enjoyed this film having watched it for the second time. A valid dramatised commentary on Human Resources working practices in France as well as a good story.

Great acting, script and direction and quite thought provoking.

The Cuture of Victimization

[lavatch · 5/10 · 1 May 2021]

The creators of "Corporate" deserve some credit for miraculously making sympathetic a cutthroat head of the Human Resources department in a corporation.

At first glance, Emilie Tesson-Hansen seems responsible for the intimidation of an employee named Didier Dalmont, who takes his life after being harassed and let go by the company. What follows is an investigation into corporate malfeasance, and the target of the inquest is the HR director Tesson-Hansen. The major question raised by the film: Was Tesson-Hansen the instigator of abusive practice, or was she also a victim?

While there were some slick production values of the unpleasant and unwholesome work environment, the film was ultimately unsuccessful in demonstrating inhumane working conditions in what are undoubtedly standard hiring and firing practices in the corporate world.

It was especially unconvincing that an outside "inspector," Marie Borrel, would be sent in conduct interviews and then work in concert with Tesson-Hansen to unmask the executive Stéphane Foncart for his devious plan to offload undesirable members of the staff.

Another shortcoming of the film was the depiction of the home life of Tesson-Hansen and a truly bizarre scene that involved Emilie conducting what would appear to be an interview of her husband and disrobing in the process. The husband's role in the affairs of her office work was never made clear. And what was the purpose of the scene where Tesson-Hansen decided to get drunk with a coterie of Japanese businessmen?

In the end, the film was not absorbing as an exposé of corporate shenanigans. It was slow-paced with far too many extraneous details. Arguably, every employee of Tesson-Hansen's corporation was a victim for choosing to work for such a sleazy operation in the first place.

Predictable but engaging

[qui_j · 5/10 · 30 April 2021]

This is a very predictable French film without much of the flowery dialog and histrionic acting that is so common in these offerings. It's theme is a well worn one of the evil corporation exploiting and manipulating its employees. It does engage viewers throughout and is a change from the very moody films from France, filmed in low light and feature innumerable close ups of eyes, mouths and other parts of facial anatomy!

How to get rid of an employee without firing him...

[searchanddestroy-1 · 8 April 2017]

You deal here with one more depressing film about the everlasting problem of harassment and over strain in big companies. The meat chopper, the human slaughterhouses of the modern era where employees and managers are considered as animals, cattle, expendable stuff. After LA LOI DU MARCHE, RESSOURCES HUMAINES and CAROLE MATHIEU and many other movies since one decade now, if you are yourself in deep misery because of your job and - or manager, on the edge of lethal burnout, limit to jump through your office window from the tenth floor, so, PLEASE, don't go to see this outstanding but realistic feature not for all audiences. You have been warned. Lambert Wilson has never been so terrific as a nasty and ruthless executive and Celine Salette awesome as a Human Resources manager. A pure gem.

Lo que esperaba. What I expected

[Andres-Camara · 5/10 · 7 October 2018]

Una película que dice que malas son las empresas. Pero si hay una cosa que me ha gustado y que deja clara la película, y creo que mucha gente no vera. En el fondo, todos son empleados, todos van a sufrir ese proceso en algún momento, hasta los de arriba, pues al fin y al cabo son empleados.

Es una película francesa en muchos aspectos. La iluminación es típica. No hay iluminación. Es fría por lo lejana que es. No se molestan en apoyarse en la foto para contarte algo

Los actores están bastante bien. Sobre todo la protagonista. Una cosa que no me gusta es que no cuenta bien muchas cosas, las relaciones entre personajes están muy mal contadas.

La dirección, pues muy suya. Para que molestarse en contar algo con la cámara. Observamos y que vea el espectador.

La esperaba más dura, eso es cierto. No es tan punzante como yo esperaba.

A movie that says that companies are bad. But if there is one thing that I liked and that makes the film clear, and I think many people will not see. In the end, all are employees, all will suffer this process at some point, even those at the top, because after all they are employees.

It's a French movie in many ways. The lighting is typical. There is no lighting. It is cold because it is so far away. Do not bother to lean on the photo to tell you something

The actors are pretty good. Especially the protagonist. One thing I do not like is that it does not count many things well, the relationships between characters are very badly told.

The address, well yours. So bother to tell something with the camera. We observe and that the viewer sees.

I expected it harder, that's true. It's not as sharp as I expected

Excellent movie

[Castorian · 8/10 · 27 December 2020]

Harsh, intense, super realistic movie. The actress, Céline Sallette, is gorgeous and very talented. And it was great to see Paris, as well.

Awful

[svader · 1/10 · 23 May 2021]

Terrible storyline and unrealistic.

Terrible acting also.

The preamble says the employee takes his life in front of the HR exec. He doesn't. You hear a thud and then see him all in one piece and remarkably clean prior to being trollied away.

I dontco sider 46 to be a young exec? Film is stuck in the 80s. Awful.

Happy to be a freelancer and avoid employer harassment

[zaambeze · 8/10 · 11 July 2020]

It's good to be freelancer when you watch a film like this one because you avoid certain unhealthy aspects of professional life. It takes a moral of steel to navigate the corporate bubble as well as the labour inspectorate.

Very real

[sgimene28 · 10/10 · 20 June 2021]

This movie is a gem. Well done, well acted. Supreme. This is exactly what is happening right now in many companies around the world, not necessarily corporations, but the mid companies and small. They get rid off good employees, older employees like underwear. I think anyone can relate to this movie. Recommended.

A Great Corporate world view

[sjanders-86430 · 10/10 · 8 April 2021]

Celine Sallette moves from London to Paris to a 90,000 employee corporation in Paris. Her job is to make things unpleasant so certain targetted employees would quit. One employee didn't quit but jumped from the compny railing. Violiene Fumeau is the inspector who will charge the company or Sallette for employee endangerment; a felony. Lambert Wilson is the horrible corporate boss. The script is excellent in its portrayal of big corporations where no one person matters; everyone is expendable. Nicolas Silhol directed and wrote the film. It shows that corporate employees have to answer their cell phones 24 hours a day. It is a horrible rat race. Great film!