Those Who Care

Those Who Care

85 mins | Documentary | Aug. 27, 2021

Since the cult success of Merci Patron!, activist/journalist/filmmaker François Ruffin has become an MP. Here, he attempts to table a law aimed at upholding the rights of what in Quebec are known as caregivers, and shows us in passing how a law whose need seems patently obvious is put together, debated, voted on and . . . dies on the battleground of French politics. A stirring documentary about social injustice that somehow manages to make us bust a gut laughing as we rage with indignation. And also cry at the beauty of it all, thanks to the director’s humanist sensibility and a deft play between reality and fiction.

Those Who Care

85 mins | Documentary | Aug. 27, 2021

Those Who Care
Since the cult success of Merci Patron!, activist/journalist/filmmaker François Ruffin has become an MP. Here, he attempts to table a law aimed at upholding the rights of what in Quebec are known as caregivers, and shows us in passing how a law whose need seems patently obvious is put together, debated, voted on and . . . dies on the battleground of French politics. A stirring documentary about social injustice that somehow manages to make us bust a gut laughing as we rage with indignation. And also cry at the beauty of it all, thanks to the director’s humanist sensibility and a deft play between reality and fiction.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Jour2Fête, Fakir, Les 400 clous
Original title Debout les femmes !
Directors François Ruffin, Gilles Perret
Writers François Ruffin, Gilles Perret

Cast

Gilles Perret

as Self

Bruno Bonnell

as Self

Armel Briend

as Self