Article 23
Synopsis
Set against a backdrop of management through stress and terror, of the multiple aberrations of the world of work, of the injustices and discriminations of the job recruitment process which determines the only profile of the perfect "acceptable" candidate, Article 23 tells the stories of three lives that cross paths and clash. Cécile,a widow and mother of two children in her forties, is laid off. Cédric is a headhunter and a perfect little soldier of the "machine" who inexorably moves up the ladder. Alice is a young graduate who abandons human resources for humanitarian work because she refuses to be part of the system.
Cécile, who initially seemed condemned, finds herself center stage and we witness Cédric's long descent into hell after abusing his power for mercenary reasons, destroyed by a system that sacrifices those who are "not economically pertinent" so as to maintain an elite.
Utlimately, the film offers another gaze on the "victim/victimizer" duality through the narrative of this story mainly inspired by a real facts, where all the protagonists find themselves abused by a terrifying and implacable system in which nobody now controls anything.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : La Femme Endormie
- Film exports/foreign sales : La Femme Endormie
- French distribution : Art Cinefeel
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Carole Solive
- Screenwriter : Jean-Pierre Delepine
- Directors of Photography : Jérémy Lesquelen, Fabien Margnac
- Music Composer : Jean-Pierre Bouquet
- Editors : Thomas Bahloul, Sylvie Pontoizeau
- Sound recordists : Cédric Alamargot, Sylvianne Bouget, Marion Hennenfent
- Voice-over : Édouard Baer
- Production Manager : Antoine Camard
- Grader : Nicolas Perret
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Guy Véran
Media Gallery
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- French release : 12/12/2012
- Runtime : 1 h 21 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 125.839
- Visa issue date : 27/10/2010
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
