A day like so many others, on a TV set. Sarah Saldmann gets carried away: “ The minimum wage is already not bad. » François Ruffin, who faces him, then suggests to the lawyer and columnist that they live for a month on €1,300, and we talk about it again. Tiny, but not more than a week, she replies. Bank. This is a ready-made reason for the left-wing deputy (Caesarized for Thanks boss!) and his cinema accomplice Gilles Perret resume their road movie, after I want the sun! et Get up, women! Always in contact with the most modest, but this time escorted by a follower of liberalism full of money and prejudices (to make it short: the poor are nothing but lazy people).
Who has not one day dreamed, faced with the author of a sweeping formula, a political personality or editorialist, of plunging him into contact with those he despises? Alas, he is not a Laurent Wauquiez (remember, “ assistantship cancer “) who can be seen detailing fish fillets in Boulogne-sur-Mer, scrubbing toilets, cleaning homes or delivering parcels. There ” social reintegration of the rich » applies to a media puppet without stature, trying to exist with his big mouth. And who here demonstrates a disarming good will (the “ nice Sarah ”, against the “ Cruella » from TV). Ruffin holds back neither his sarcasm nor his smirks. But where does Sarah Saldmann's fortune come from, what should the law do to abolish privileges and share the cake? The film and the MP say nothing about it.
Hidden behind the argument of “carnival” or “farce”, this absence of political project is embarrassing. Even more embarrassing is the impression that Nathalie the ex-maid, Mohammed the fiber installer or Louisa the carer feel obliged, in front of the camera, to justify their poverty, to prove that they are trying to survive. 'get out of it. Once the Sarah Saldmann page has been turned (“ we had to fire her “… due to odious remarks about Gaza), the film tries to restore the balance in their favor, but it is too late. We would have preferred the last sequence to clear up one by one the pitfalls of the project, of which we suspect that Ruffin and Perret are aware. Get to work! ultimately boils down to a form of “ social tourism ”, which turns out to be short.
Our opinion: 2/5
By François Ruffin and Gilles Perret. France, 1h24, documentary.
