PREMIÈRE NORD-AMÉRICAINE / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
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TOKYO SHAKING
TOKYO SHAKING
Director
Olivier Peyon
Cast
Karin Viard, Stéphane Bak, Yumi Narita, Philippe Uchan
Producer
Les Films du Lendemain
Screenwriter
Olivier Peyon, Cyril Brody
Distributor
Axia Films
*Please note that this film will be presented in theaters without English subtitles.
March 11 2011: Japan suffers the Fukushima nuclear accident. Alexandra, a French woman who works in a bank, is torn between her bosses ‘contradictory orders and the necessity of protecting her family. She finds herself, almost in spite of herself, defending a certain idea of honour and the given promise made.
CINEMANIA’s opinion :
Ten years after these events, Olivier Peyon makes an alarming film of disarming subtlety that avoids the usual excesses of this genre. Inspired by the eye witness account of a friend, he retraces the chronology of these events and the surrounding disinformation. As a good employee wishing to perform her professional duties to the utmost, Karin Viard gives one of her best performances. As in APPEARANCES (shown at Cinemania in 2021), she plays an expatriate whose values are shaken. At her side, Yumi Narita makes use of his own experience of this catastrophe to evoke the Japanese people’s resilience in the face of adversity. In addition to being very well documented (thanks to videos shot by amateurs who filmed the actual events), this rhythmic story combines comic elements and offers up a telling satire of the corporate world.
⇢ The screening on november 4th will be followed by a discussion on crisis communication
Animated by Caroline Jost, co-founder and president of iNNERSHiP.
After studying international business, human resources and social and environmental responsibility, Caroline began her career in the metal industry in change management. She then held various positions in human resources internationally before co-creating iNNERSHiP in Montreal in 2013, with the objective of enabling managers and HRDs to succeed in their evolution and support employee projects. Passionate about people and innovation, Caroline is also very involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Quebec and is a member of several technology-oriented entrepreneur circles.
⇢ Following its presentation at CINEMANIA, the film will be available on Crave between November 21st and December 1st.
⇢ The screening on november 4th will be followed by a discussion on crisis communication
Animated by Caroline Jost, co-founder and president of iNNERSHiP.
After studying international business, human resources and social and environmental responsibility, Caroline began her career in the metal industry in change management. She then held various positions in human resources internationally before co-creating iNNERSHiP in Montreal in 2013, with the objective of enabling managers and HRDs to succeed in their evolution and support employee projects. Passionate about people and innovation, Caroline is also very involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Quebec and is a member of several technology-oriented entrepreneur circles.
⇢ Following its presentation at CINEMANIA, the film will be available on Crave between November 21st and December 1st.
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