She lives in a world where people have no instinctual sense of each other. Her world is reduced to simple geometry that has little resemblance to modern business, good or bad. The photography is very solid and gives the film what little gravity it achieves.
As a "temp" Sasha's environment is business. Yet, business, though supposedly everpresent, is nowhere to be seen, has no urgency, does not push people to extremes - It is not business as we know it. Folks have time for extended pointless conversations, and even drink wine in the office cafeteria.
Our Sasha works days in offices that typically have windows, with pleasant views. Not too bad. The director could have spent time in a windowless overnight office, month-in month-out to see how people adapt to the setting and each other. People survive for years in such places and are nowhere near as boring as the characters in this movie.
Instead, the offices she inhabits are in an idyllic French Alpine setting, she has a wonderful apartment, no traffic jams, and the hot water probably works - maybe her problem is that her life has no resistance. A big argument for New York over France?
I feel this filmmaker would make the same vacated empty film if they were in China, pre-80's Poland, a Juarez maquilladora, a Dickensian factory, or the first Ford plant. In short, they have no sense of the individuality of people and the social forms they create. They have no sense for what gets a worker through a horrible or great day, they have no sense for what diverts a worker for better or worse, no sense of the things that fill a worker's world. And which we would be interested in hearing about.
As a "temp" Sasha's environment is business. Yet, business, though supposedly everpresent, is nowhere to be seen, has no urgency, does not push people to extremes - It is not business as we know it. Folks have time for extended pointless conversations, and even drink wine in the office cafeteria.
Our Sasha works days in offices that typically have windows, with pleasant views. Not too bad. The director could have spent time in a windowless overnight office, month-in month-out to see how people adapt to the setting and each other. People survive for years in such places and are nowhere near as boring as the characters in this movie.
Instead, the offices she inhabits are in an idyllic French Alpine setting, she has a wonderful apartment, no traffic jams, and the hot water probably works - maybe her problem is that her life has no resistance. A big argument for New York over France?
I feel this filmmaker would make the same vacated empty film if they were in China, pre-80's Poland, a Juarez maquilladora, a Dickensian factory, or the first Ford plant. In short, they have no sense of the individuality of people and the social forms they create. They have no sense for what gets a worker through a horrible or great day, they have no sense for what diverts a worker for better or worse, no sense of the things that fill a worker's world. And which we would be interested in hearing about.