A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.
The film's silences are more attention-getting and mesmerizing than the most demanding background music.
– Leah Garchik,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Beautifully performed, blessed with Ray's customary sense of balance, and wittily satirising the absurdity of bureaucracy run riot, it makes absording viewing.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
It has the best performances of any Ray film I've seen.