Roma Cinema Detour, Via Urbana 107 Roma
June 7 Wednesday 2017 9.00 p.m.
ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Preview
In collaboration with Wanted Cinema distribuzione
“If someone had written this script for the film, it would not have been credible. Reality is better than fiction” Mr. Ruffin said.
MERCI PATRON! (Thanks Boss!)
Directed by François Ruffin (Francia 2017, French o.v., Italian subtitles, 83′)
A satirical documentary film that pits a pair of unemployed garment workers against the billionaire head of the luxury giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has emerged as a sleeper hit in France, where it has become a rallying cry against a government proposal to overhaul the labor code.
“Merci Patron!” follows Mr. Ruffin’s efforts on behalf of Jocelyne and Serge Klur, a couple in the northern town of Forest-en-Cambrésis who lost their jobs in 2007 with the closing of a factory that had been subcontracted to make suits for LVMH brands. Production was moved to Eastern Europe.
Mr. Ruffin coaches the Klurs, who are now destitute and whose home is threatened with foreclosure. Posing as their son, with dyed blond hair, he guides them on a quest to demand 35,000 euros, about $40,000, to settle their debts and to win a minimum-wage job for Mr. Klur from LVMH and Mr. Arnault.
The director made the film on a shoestring budget, with money from crowdfunding as well as €40,000 from Fakir, a satirical left-wing magazine that he edits. “Merci Patron!” has also benefited from accusations of censorship. Mr. Ruffin said he had been shut out of the television talk show circuit in a nation where most of the mainstream media is controlled by a few conglomerates. In March, the union for journalists from Le Parisien — a daily newspaper that LVMH acquired last year — publicly accused their new editor of blocking reviews of the film because he argued that the Klurs were being manipulated.
from The New Your Times.
_
 |
DETOUR |
| Cinema | Corsi e laboratori | Esposizioni | attività per bambini | Cinebar | Musica | Distribuzione indipendente | |
Associazione Culturale Detour – Via Urbana 107 Roma www.cinedetour.it– cinedetour@tiscali.it
Detour è affiliato all’ENAL e alla FICC (Federazione Italiana Circoli Cinema)
Sostienici / Support Us
Seguici su / Follow us on:
 |
 |
 |