Office romance and intrigue intersect for tension with little weight
What better way to get to know a couple then to throw them in an uncomfortable situation and see how they wriggle out of it?introduces its romantic leads – Emily and Luke – by thrusting them into a situation so calamitous, so primed for social mortification, you can’t help but laugh. But so too do Emily and Luke, merrily cackling and making their escape hand in hand.
Emily and Luke are junior stock traders eager to make their names and their fortunes. They’re colleagues at the same firm, though company policy prohibits interoffice dating, so they’ve kept their relationship a secret. By the nature of their jobs, they are also competitors. When one of them advances in the film’s opening minutes, it means the other was passed over for the position, which comes with a new office, clubby drinks with the boss, and a six-figure bonus.
Domont draws daring performances from Dynevor and Ehrenreich and they attack their roles with grim determination. Gender expectations, the distinctions between our work and home selves, what we'll do to get ahead at the office, the brain-melting influence of certain dark alleys of the internet – it’s all fodder here. Domont’s premise is a provocative one, and she crafts expertly cutting dialogue around it.
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