LE SÉMINAIRE
by Charles Nemes
synopsis
With a mixture of hope and fear, six employees from the Geugène company travel to Paris to take part in a motivation seminar. Among them are Hervé, a deceitful union representative, and Jean-Claude, who describes himself as the king of sales. For Jean-Claude, this trip is an unexpected opportunity to win back his wife, who left him – taking her bags and their children with her – when he set fire to their house in order to claim the insurance money. Flanked by Hervé – who immediately sees their coach’s assistant as a possible party to conjugal misbehaviour – Jean-Claude scours the capital in search of her and proves that innocent men can sometimes find a needle in a haystack. Everything is set to go to plan until Hervé makes an alarming discovery: the seminar is merely a pretext for an undercover assessment of staff, with a view to redeployment. This is translated by everyone as "social plan". They go from obedience to revolt, turning the seminar’s achievements against their dishonest employers.
original title: | Le Séminaire |
country: | France |
year: | 2008 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Charles Nemes |
release date: | FR 11/02/2009 |
screenplay: | Alexandre Arpégis, Jérôme Arpégis, Frédéric Le Bolloc'h |
cast: | Bruno Solo, Yvan Le Bolloc'h, Armelle, Gerard Chaillou, Alain Bouzigues, Jeanne Savary |
cinematography by: | Etienne Fauduet |
music: | Alexandre Jaffray |
producer: | Jean-Yves Robin, Bruno Solo |
production: | Monkey Pack Films |
distributor: | TFM Distribution |