Fear and Trembling

A dream job rapidly becomes a nightmare for Amélie, a Japanese-born Belgian woman, who suffers a series of increasingly humiliating demotions after she lands a job as an interpreter at a large Japanese corporation. Sylvie Testud earned the French equivalent of the Academy Award for her haunting performance as the put-upon, but indomitable Amélie. Director Alain Corneau’s perversely funny adaptation of Amélie Nothomb’s 1999 autobiographical novel loses nothing in translation in deftly dissecting the universal absurdities of corporate culture. (official distributor synopsis)