JS Productions

Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating unemployment to save their job.

Combining two contradictory terms in a single phrase is called an oxymoron. Circumventing the obvious, shaking up the logic, proceeding in gusts, claiming the impossible, such is the method that Baya Medhaffar has chosen and, adopting an ancient motto, she makes it clear right from the title: “Make haste slowly”. There are several explanations for this speed proclaimed yet slowed all at once. Her film is mostly made of edited, assembled images from other films; thus, all the emergencies from other works reach a climax here, but as they overlap, they also call for their patient and detailed examination. The dishevelled editing is combined to a superimposition technique that makes scales collide, that associate separated figures and backgrounds, and that ties together in the same frame seemingly unrelated dynamics and lines of forces.

Ice has very steady relationship with her boyfriend Chi-ming. Being tired such life style, she suddenly takes a rest in Macau and she met Ray, a guy who owns a bar. During Ice's stay in Macau, they've built up their relationship very soon by having sex. When Ice goes back to Hong Kong, she cannot forget Ray. However, things changed once she can't contact Ray even though she tries to search Ray in Macau. Ice subsequently decided to marry Chi-ming...