{"id":11606,"date":"2017-06-07T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinedetour.it\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2017-06-07T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T20:00:02","slug":"merci-patron-documentario-dellanno-in-francia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinedetour.it\/en\/2017\/06\/07\/merci-patron-documentario-dellanno-in-francia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MERCI PATRON! > Best documentary 2017 in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roma Cinema Detour, Via Urbana 107 Roma
\n<\/span>June 7 Wednesday 2017 9.00 p.m.
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ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Preview<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In collaboration with Wanted Cinema distribuzione<\/span>
\n <\/span>\u201cIf someone had written this script for the film, it would not have been credible. Reality is better than fiction\u201d Mr. Ruffin said.<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n <\/span><\/em><\/span>MERCI PATRON! <\/span><\/span><\/span>(Thanks Boss!)
\n <\/span><\/span><\/span>Directed by Franc\u0327ois Ruffin (Francia 2017, French o.v., Italian subtitles, 83′)<\/span><\/p>\n

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A satirical documentary film that pits a pair of unemployed garment workers against the billionaire head of the luxury giant LVMH Mo\u00ebt 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMerci Patron!\u201d follows Mr. Ruffin\u2019s efforts on behalf of Jocelyne and Serge Klur, a couple in the northern town of Forest-en-Cambr\u00e9sis 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

The director made the film on a shoestring budget, with money from crowdfunding as well as \u20ac40,000 from Fakir<\/a>, a satirical left-wing magazine that he edits. \u201cMerci Patron!\u201d 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 \u2014 a daily newspaper that LVMH acquired last year \u2014 publicly accused their new editor of blocking reviews of the film because he argued that the Klurs were being manipulated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doreen Carvajal<\/span> from The New Your Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

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