The Comedy of Work

In this typically delightful comedy, Luc Moullet examines a recurring topic in his work: the shifting character of labor in an ever-changing, capitalism-dominated world. Sabine Haudepin stars as Françoise, a job counselor who is trying to find employment for two men who are out of work, one of whom is her work-averse lover, while the other is a recently fired bank clerk who cannot bring himself to admit that he lost his job. The Comedy of Work, as its title might imply, is a dryly comic investigation into the contradictions and indignities of modern labor, and it might be Moullet’s most incisive work.