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4.4/5 AlloCine Directed by François Ruffin Distributed by Jour2fête Budget 150,000 EUR | 7.4/10 IMDb Edited by Cécile Dubois Director François Ruffin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Edouard Mauriat
Johanna Silva Production
company Mille et Unes production
Les Quatre cents clous Release date 24 February 2016 (2016-02-24) (France) Initial release 1 February 2016 (Montpellier) Cast François Ruffin, Jocelyne Klur, Serge Klur, Bernard Arnault Producers Edouard Mauriat, Anne-Cécile Berthomeau, Johanna Silva Awards César Award for Best Documentary Similar La Sociale, Tomorrow, Comme des lions, Slack Bay, Saint‑Amour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Merci patron! is a French documentary film directed by journalist François Ruffin. It was first screened in 2015 and was released nationally in France on 24 February 2016. The film is critical of the practice of outsourcing French jobs to foreign labour, and in particular it is critical of one of France's richest people, Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH. The style of the documentary has been compared to that of the American director Michael Moore. The film's success has been cited as a factor in the rise of the Nuit debout movement.
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Synopsis
The film's stars are Jocelyn and Serge Klur, former workers at a factory that manufactured clothes for the luxury goods brand Kenzo, owned by LVMH. When the factory was moved to Poland, the couple found themselves unemployed, struggling with debt, and at risk of losing their house.
The director and left-wing activist François Ruffin sets out to help the couple, seeking to make Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH, pay compensation to the couple for "ruining their lives".
Release
The film was a box office success. By the end of April 2016, the film had been seen by 315,183 cinemagoers in France.
Bernard Arnault, when asked about the film by a shareholder at a meeting on 7 April 2016, responded, "LVMH is the illustration, the incarnation of the worst, according to these extreme leftist observers, of what the market economy produces."