Her name is Sarah Saldmann. Lawyer, lover of luxury products, figure of the “Big Mouths”, regularly invited on Cnews and by Cyril Hanouna, she does not have harsh enough words to attack the “assisted” and never stops saying that the minimum wage , it’s “already not bad”. François Ruffin, who met her on the same RMC set, suggested that she try to live for three months on €1,300. This is what gave rise to this film, “Au travail”, co-directed with Gilles Perret. “I make a film for the laughter, the tears, the emotion, the touch of fantasy and particularly in these times of gloom”assures the deputy of the Somme François Ruffin and co-author of this feature film, assuming in passing the possible clichés of the film.
“As much as we can look at her as being folkloric, I take her prejudices very seriously. If they were just her prejudices, we would be calm, but today, they are very anchored in the classes popular themselves”believes François Ruffin. “Elimination of these prejudices contributes to demining them in society”he assures. The meeting between the French and this lawyer produces “anger, when people hear that there are watches for 50,000 euros and sandwiches for 54 euros”but it also causes “social revenge”he said. “When Louisa, the carer who makes Sarah Saldmann clean the toilets. These people, who for me are the heroes of the film, never have the right to respond, and there, for once, someone comes down from his pedestal, places himself as an equal and offers a right of reply.”
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François Ruffin brushes aside the suspicion of demagoguery. “In our country, the French must be able to make a good living from their work and not survive from it. (…) We are making a film, we have this conviction that emotion is a driving force. If we manage to give people the desire to want is already not bad”he says. The subject of this film, “it’s not Sarah Saldmann, but these people, Nathalie, Sylvain and Louisa, who we never see, shown in great ways on the screen, people who are great every day”says the MP. He finally confirms that he “angry” with the lawyer about the war between Israel and Hamas. “I told him that I could not be a humanist here and not be one in Gaza”explains François Ruffin.
