Funny Reels (1957)

Release Date: 1957-01-01
Runtime: 0h 17min
Production Country: France
Director: Maurice Pialat

Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five times, engaging in absurdist shenanigans with his coworkers. Pialat's early short film made for Olivetti's end-of-year party, where the filmmaker was then a sales representative; an homage to silent era slapstick comedy.