Merci Patron ! (2016)

Directed by

François Ruffin

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

6

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 143 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist follows a working-class couple who lost their jobs at a factory owned by a billionaire's company. He tries to hold that billionaire accountable for outsourcing their jobs abroad. The film shows one person taking on a powerful business leader.

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What happens

Merci patron! (Thank you, boss!) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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