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Theodore S Jul 3, 2018 Drama demonstrates (as if we didn't know) how the "boy's networks" excludes women from top jobs, etc.... A woman seeks to challenge this and networks close ranks, her husband loses his job as a consequence, etc. Will she win out in the end? (I got a little lost in last third of the film, so not sure I quite followed the plot. Perhaps I need to concentrate more when there are subtitles?) See more

Jun 23, 2018 An excellent and timely movie. Emmanuelle Devos is brilliant in the lead role. Fabulous script and cinematography. A searing commentary on contemporary French culture. See more

Finn S Sep 11, 2017 Saw this terrific French film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and we were treated to a Q&A after the screening with the warm and funny director Tonie Marshall. It's about a brilliant woman (played by the marvelous Emmanuelle Devos) and the war she must fight to become CEO of a national utility company. It depicts the particular ways in which the modern working world has been built to block women's progress, from outright and blatant misogyny to thoughtless structural exclusions. Whether you live and work in France or in Canada (as I do), it will be relatable to every working woman who has had to politely sidestep male flirtations (or worse), who has been held back from promotions because of gender-based assumptions about our ambitions, who has been overtalked by a man (or been cautioned by a supervisor not to overtalk a man), who has had to carefully explain that we can't attend 8 am meetings because daycare doesn't open until 7:30, whose male spouses have made assumptions about our willingness to shoulder the bulk of the domestic workload... Hoping the film will get wide release, but as Marshall said in the Q&A after the film, it runs the risk of being considered a "niche market" film, despite it being relatable to 51 percent of the adult population. See more

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