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Struggle for Life (2016)
Director: Antonin Peretjatko
Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Vimala Pons, Pascal Légitimus, Mathieu Amalric
Runtime99 min
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Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…
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Struggle for Life (2016), directed by Antonin Peretjatko, is a critically acclaimed French comedy that follows an intern at the Ministry of Standards as he is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at an Amazonian ski slope. The film has received positive reviews, with critics praising its quirky humor and absurdist take on bureaucracy.
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Fans of quirky, offbeat comedies will enjoy the surreal and absurdist humor in Struggle for Life (2016), directed by Antonin Peretjatko. This film blends slapstick and satire as it follows an intern at the Ministry of Standards on a bizarre journey through the French Guiana jungle, where he encounters the attractive Tarzan-like figure of Vimala Pons.
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The concept of the struggle for existence concerns the competition or battle for resources needed to live. It can refer to human society, or to organisms in nature. The concept is ancient, and the term struggle for existence was in use by the end of the 18th century. From the 17th century onwards the concept was associated with a population exceeding resources, an issue shown starkly in Thomas Robert Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population which drew on Benjamin Franklin's Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc..
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