A Golden Job

Everyone has dreamed of breaking the monotonous and tiring routine.

Chris and Hugo, two long-time friends, are about to be offered a way to end their schedules and bills. The opportunity in question? A dream job.

Traveling and having fun are the watchwords, while obviously earning good money. Nevertheless, every good point hides another one... The duo will have to give it their all to achieve this famous freedom.

When you're a young man in your thirties, with a girlfriend you love and a job you love, you shouldn't feel this void. Yet Chris feels it. His best friend Hugo does too. Society is holding them back, and they need a breath of fresh air.

As always, mixing genres is a good way to tell an entertaining story without losing the dramatic context. In writing A Golden Job, my goal was to create an action comedy that was funny but grounded in social reality. The characters had to be real, whole.

This film is a story of friendship, love and freedom. Chris doesn't want to be a cab driver with no ambition anymore. Where is his real freedom? Clara, his girlfriend, tries to understand him but can't change things. After all, they can't risk losing the stability that is just beginning to settle into their young married life. Hugo hopes to have more free will by being overly sincere, even if it means incurring the wrath of others. He also sees that his middle-class condition always catches up with him. So the two friends fall for a large-scale scam, thrilled by the prospect of traveling and breaking their routine. This they will break, and not just halfway.

I visualize a dynamic and rhythmic film, despite its reflective moments. The drama is present, but as in life, it coexists with a fun messiness. Written with a good dose of pop-cultural references, the film plays with the characters by plunging them into chaos with comedy, to bring out their doubts even more.

Between extreme lightness and heavy reality, it would be a pity to choose: A Golden Job is therefore a dramatic action comedy.

After having been a scriptwriter, assistant director and actor, Rayen HEDIJI dedicates himself exclusively to directing in 2016. He directs documentaries until 2018 with 6e Sens Prod.

In April 2018, he directed the short film Agonia. He then met a young producer with whom he directed the following year Ennemi Commun, a second dramatic short film dealing with the repercussions of confinement on a suburban youth. This film was part of the Lockdown Film Festival.

In January 2021, Rayen directed Double Jeu, a short film shot at the Auberge Nicolas Flamel, the oldest house in Paris. This is his first participation in the international film festival of very short films, the Nikon Film Festival, which annually rewards young film talents in Paris through various prize categories. Rayen is currently preparing a a French-Tunisian feature film.