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Carom Shots (1963)
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Original name: Carambolages
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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...
Style:
satirical, cynical, suspense, black comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, black humor
Plot:
ambition, murder, social climbing, office politics, dark humor, deception, corruption, debt, manipulation, greed, power struggle, satire, scheming, betrayal, conspiracy, urban, class struggle, bureaucracy, moral ambiguity, social commentary, anti hero, firm, minimalism, career, rise to the top ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
europe
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Story:
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Style:
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