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The Human Resources Manager
2009 1h 43m Not Rated
Drama
,
Comedy
6.6
75%
62%
73%
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A tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
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Directed By
Eran Riklis
Written By
Noah Stollman
Studio
Libra Film
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2-Team Productions
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Pallas Film
Cast of The Human Resources Manager
Mark Ivanir
Le DHR
Guri Alfi
La "fouine"
Noah Silver
Le garçon
Rozina Cambos
Le consul
Julian Negulesco
Le vice-consul
Bogdan Stanoevici
L'ex-mari
Irina Petrescu
Grandmother
The Human Resources Manager Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Even with incidents involving drunken locals, an underground bunker and a decommissioned tank, the film doesn't build the comic momentum of good intentions hurtling downhill in a strange land.
Washington Post
Rachel Saslow
If director Eran Riklis's intention is to show the blossoming humanity, so to speak, of a human resources manager, the transformation is much too subtle to work.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Human Resources Manager" adroitly mixes moving personal drama, absurdist comedy and site-specific cultural situations.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
A disappointingly shallow story in which only the dead are named, and the living are reduced to stereotypes.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Ivanir's acting is the key - he portrays the transition without sentimentalizing his character.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
An enjoyable mix of tragedy and comedy.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Yehoshua and Riklis are sometimes better at setting things up than following through, but the result suggests a novelistic density.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
It's hard to say if the film is aiming for a political critique of the dynamics of the everydayness of suicide bombings in Israel and the country's poor treatment of its immigrant population, or if that's just the way we read anything "Israel."
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Tender irony and dark humor abound in Israeli director Eran Riklis's latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning compassion.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
The goal is allegory: the result is a yawn.
Mark Leeper's Reviews
Mark R. Leeper
As a portrait of a very diverse set of people coming together in a single story, the film is amusing.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
Like a great short story, it begins with a simple situation and then convinces you it has told you everything important about it.
eFilmCritic.com
Dan Lybarger
As with "The Lemon Tree," Riklis has a Will Rogers-like affection for every character in his film.
Boxoffice Magazine
Pam Grady
Israel's Oscar submission and Best Picture winner at the Israeli Academy Awards is an amiable but dark dramedy.
House Next Door
Glenn Heath Jr.
The Human Resources Manager takes a tragicomic stand against the inhumanity of bureaucracy, but also inverts genre conventions to prolong the character's time together.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Surprising, humanistic tour through the detritus of global disorder with a motley individuated crew on an odyssey in a bleak, stormy landscape from Israel to ex-Soviet bloc.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
A title infused with an irony encapsulating this bittersweet and darkly laced satire. And a murky odyssey into euphemisms that tend to define the universal workplace, where humane gestures more often than not protect the bosses, rather than the workers.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
As helmed by Eran Riklis, Israel's Oscar entry is a sharply observed serio comedy, in which a self-centered careerist is humanized by embarking on a journey that's both physical and allegorical.
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Sarah Boslaugh
But The Human Resources Manager is not really about guest workers-instead, like the Magical Negroes so beloved of certain American filmmakers, they exist only to help members of the privileged classes get in touch with their humanity
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
[A] well-made piece we must admire, even if it doesn't grab us by the heart.
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