Now is the time to judge the choice of Gilles Perret and François Ruffin to bring Sarah Saldmann, an ultraliberal television figure, to meet working-class French people. Get to work!documentary road movie, takes up the principle of Live my life.
The columnist compares her caricatured diatribes on a France of lazy people and welfare recipients to the daily lives of Amine, a delivery driver from Lyon, of Louisa, a caregiver from Saint-Etienne earning 1,000 euros a month, or of Nathalie, a maid who has long been estranged from the employment after occupational illnesses. With other witnesses filmed by the Perret-Ruffin tandem, they are the real heroes of this buddy movie funny and endearing where the filmmakers roll out the red carpet for them.
What can cinema do to raise awareness?
Gilles Perret : The film debunks the preconceptions about welfare recipients, profiteers, lazy people. By showing, we also give to understand. During a preview in Bonneville (Haute-Savoie), near my home, a lady thanked me for enlightening her because she sometimes indulged in calling her neighbors welfare recipients or profiteers.
François Ruffin : We are not making a film to make a political speech. We put people in motion because they have voices, lives and faces. Seeing them, the spectators, pumped up, say to themselves: “It is for them that I must fight. » Nos films Thanks Boss ! I want the sun! – on the yellow vests – and Get up, women! – on essential professions – participated in a political movement.
