by Miramax Home Entertainment
Sales Rank: 53438
Price: $17.99
Vincent is a businessman on the move. Seemingly at the top of his game, Vincent speeds between meetings and conferences using his cell phone to share the smallest detail of his professional life with his admiring wife, Muriel. What she doesn't know is that Vincent is leading a double life. He was fired from his job and has constructed an elaborate fantasy of employment that has become his full-time occupation. His fictional new job provides "investment opportunities" for his old friends and even his parents. But the web of lies threatens to choke him when the investors start asking about their money. Vincent must now decide which of his lives is most important.
Viewer Reviews Evidently getting fired or laid off in France is more traumatic than in the US, judging by this film in which a man is so freaked that he can't tell his family he's jobless. Instead, he kills time hanging around and eventually sinks to selling counterfeit goods with a semi-crook. In the end, he gets a new white collar job. More than two hours of moody non-action. You're never quite sure what's going on, but actually very little is. I don't understand the great reviews. It also pictures an uglier side of French suburbia I didn't know existed.
