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Fear and Trembling
MEANRANK
72/100
Every rating
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Lowest is AlloCiné on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 91. Critics average 83, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
Details
- Director
- Alain Corneau
- Writer
- Alain Corneau
- Released
- 12 March 2003
- Country
- Japan, France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Awards
- 4 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 major award won · 4 wins from 6 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| César Awards 2003 | Best Actress | Sylvie Testud | Winner |
| César Awards 2003 | Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation | Alain Corneau | Nominee |
| Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2003 | Best Actress | Sylvie Testud | Winner |
| Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2003 | Special Mention | Winner | |
| Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2003 | Crystal Globe | Nominee | |
| Lumière Awards 2003 | Best Actress | Sylvie Testud | Winner |
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×6 awards — Fear and Trembling
×| Best Actress | Sylvie Testud | Winner |
| Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation | Alain Corneau | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Sylvie Testud | Winner |
| Special Mention | Winner | |
| Crystal Globe | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Sylvie Testud | Winner |