“Employee of the Month” is headed stateside. Deadline reports that Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Véronique Jadin’s dark comedy with plans to release it in theaters early next year, with a wide release across home entertainment and digital platforms to follow.
Penned by Jadin and Nina Vanspranghe, the French-language film follows “the middle-aged Inès (Jasmina Douieb), who has long been a diligent employee of the small wholesale household products company, EcoCleanPro. Tasked with mentoring a young trainee, the sarcastic Melody (Laetitia Mampaka), Inès embraces her role. However, while she treats her work seriously, her male counterparts and her boss consistently belittle her, ordering her to do menial