Corporate

Acerca de Corporate

Corporate es una película de suspenso francesa estrenada el 5 de abril de 2017, escrita y dirigida por Nicolas Silhol.

Resumen

Corporate es una película de suspenso francesa estrenada el 5 de abril de 2017, escrita y dirigida por Nicolas Silhol. Trama Émilie Tesson-Hansen es una gerente de personal brillante y fría en Esen, un grupo industrial de alimentos. Uno de los miembros de su equipo ha estado intentando reunirse repetidamente con ella. Finalmente la aborda en la calle, donde ella le dice que no es bienvenido y que debería renunciar. Poco después, se suicida saltando desde el edificio. Se abre una investigación por parte de un inspector laboral. Considerada culpable ante los ojos del director de recursos humanos y sus superiores, Emilie decide evitar la prisión y salvarse. Ella revela al investigador los perniciosos métodos de acoso y el acoso laboral practicados en Esen. Reparto Céline Sallette as Émilie Tesson-Hansen Lambert Wilson as Stéphane Froncart, CHRO Violaine Fumeau as Marie Borrel, l'inspectrice de travail Stéphane De Groodt as Vincent Charlie Anson as Colin Hansen, Émilie's husband Alice de Lencquesaing as Sophie, Émilie's assistant Camille Japy as Catherine, a colleague Hyam Zaytoun as Patricia Suarez, Froncart's assistant Jacques Chambon as CFO Arnaud Bedouët as Jean-Louis Maury Xavier De Guillebon as Didier Dalmat Edith Saulnier as Juliette Dalmat, Didier's daughter Nathalie Sportiello as CCO Pierre-Loup Silhol as Léo Hansen Yun Lai as a Korean businessman Recepción En Francia, la película recibió elogios de la crítica. Una crítica, Florence Vasca, en AngersMag escribió, "la película se pregunta cuál es el límite de un ser humano cuando su carrera está en juego."

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Notable quotes

“As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.”
— Joel Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), p. 60
“[...] legal curbs on corporate freedoms are needed to protect citizen's freedom.”
— Joel Bakan, The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy, Vintage Books, 2020, page 61 (ISBN 9781984899729).
“Given the extensive involvement of state violence in the process by which the corporate elite not only achieved its wealth in the past but continues to maintain and augment it in the present, it is clear that the massive inequalities of wealth that characterise present-day “capitalist” society are radically inconsistent with any approach to justice in holdings that is even remotely Nozickian.”
— Roderick Long, "Left-libertarianism, market anarchism, class conflict and historical theories of distributive justice," Griffith Law Review, Vol. 21 Issue 2 (2012), p. 425
“The Court are bound to consider all the circumstances of the case, before they disturb the peace and quiet of any corporation.”
— Lord Mansfield, King v. Stacey (1785), 1 T. R. 6.
“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.”
— Edward Coke, Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612), 5 Rep. 303; 10 Rep. 32 b.
“It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.”
— Edward Coke, Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612), 5 Rep. 303; 10 Rep. 32 b.

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