The Trawler and the Seagulls
The Eric Cantona-starring drama Inhuman Resources is an improbable but involving thriller about a worker thrown on the scrapheap who becomes a heroic supervillain — a character that resonates with recent populist insurgencies of right and left.
Netflix’s Inhuman Resources stands out from the welter of binge-worthy streaming series that have jostled for attention during lockdown for two main reasons. The first is its themes: the ongoing attrition of the French post-war political bargain, the unprecedented extent — at least in recent French history — of popular dissent, and the role of […]
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