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Carom Shots

1963 · 88 min

A sly, cynical French farce that makes you smirk at office scheming and consumer greed, with a sharp bite beneath the laughs.

Overview: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...

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Tone: satiricalstrength 3 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
corruption
class
betrayal
greed
Places: workplace
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	7
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: comedy, crime
Directed by: Marcel Bluwal
Written by: Michel Audiard
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault, Louis de Funès, Sophie Daumier, Anne Tonietti, Henri Virlogeux, Alfred Adam, René Clermont
Music: Gérard Calvi
Cinematography: André Bac
Runtime: 88 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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