Fear and Trembling
A dream job rapidly becomes a nightmare for Amelie, 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 Amelie. Director Alain Corneau's (Tous les matins du monde) perversely funny adaptation of Amelie Nothomb's 1999 autobiographical novel loses nothing in translation in deftly dissecting the universal absurdities of corporate culture.