The Empty Job
Synopsis
In an undefined future in France, unemployment has reached 35%. The government feels that consumption is endangered and, to give the unemployed purchasing power again, it creates an empty job policy: high wage earners must employ a jobless person. In this way Monsieur Rémiot, an executive, encounters thirty-year-old unemployed Elise. This forced coexistence causes him to question his own usefulness and undermines the foundations of the main reference points of his life.
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Actors (8)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films Sauvages
- Film exports/foreign sales : La Luna Diffusion
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Jean-Christophe Soulageon
- Screenwriters : Sophie Hiet, Antarès Bassis
- Director of photography : Pénélope Pourriat
- Music Composer : Denis Uhalde
- Assistant director : Julie Navarre
- Editor : Yann Coquart
- Sound Recordist : Vincent Piponnier
- Costume designer : Laurence Ounini
- Sound Editor : Jean-Marc Schick
- Assistant editor : Mona-Lise Lanfant
- Production Assistant : Sylvain Bousquet
- Production Designer : Véronique Barnéoud
- Special Effects : Bruno Bompas
- Graphic Designer : Jérémie Sommet
- Music performers : Hélène Ucher, Frédéric Truet, Denis Uhalde
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Marc Schick
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy, Science fiction , Social comedy
- Themes : Science fiction/Futuristic, Unemployment
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2007
- Runtime : 30 min
- Visa number : 110.329
- Visa issue date : 20/12/2007
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : DTS SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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