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Those Who Care (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.
Genres:
Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.feminism,
tmdb.working-women,
tmdb.social-bond-professions,
imdb.france,
imdb.exclamation-point-in-title,
imdb.2010s,
imdb.2020s + 41 more,
imdb.working-class,
imdb.cleaning-lady,
imdb.talking-to-the-camera,
imdb.servitude,
imdb.french-national-assembly,
imdb.care,
imdb.caretaker,
imdb.caregiver,
imdb.home-care,
imdb.social-care,
imdb.special-educational-needs,
imdb.special-needs,
imdb.french-politics,
imdb.working-women,
imdb.low-wages,
imdb.reference-to-autism,
imdb.reference-to-emmanuel-macron,
imdb.covid-lockdown,
imdb.covid-19,
imdb.older-person,
imdb.stroke-victim,
imdb.old-age,
imdb.surgical-mask,
imdb.post-industrial-society,
imdb.poor-worker,
imdb.work-injury,
imdb.hospital,
imdb.law,
imdb.lawmaker,
imdb.lawmaking,
imdb.what-happened-to-epilogue,
imdb.tv-interview,
imdb.radio-interview,
imdb.carer,
imdb.equal-pay,
imdb.fight-for-rights,
imdb.women-s-rights,
imdb.amiens-france,
imdb.dieppe-france,
imdb.abbeville-france,
imdb.title-spoken-by-character
Runtime: 85 min.
Released: Aug. 27, 2021
Digital Release: Feb. 23, 2022
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 11+
