By Fiachra Gibbons, March 20, 2016 France24.
PARIS (AFP) - It's the year's least likely feelgood hit film in which the little guys take on France's richest man and end up laughing all the way to the bank.
A documentary about an unemployed middle aged couple in one of France's poorest towns so desperately in debt that they were on the point of burning their home has been playing to packed cinemas, with audiences cheering in the aisles.
"Merci Patron!" (Thanks boss!) may sound like a film to slit your wrists to, but it has become a hilarious rallying cry for thousands of French workers who have lost their jobs -- or fear losing them -- to cheaper foreign labour.
In the film, former textile workers Jocelyne and Serge Klur not only take on the "king of the catwalk" Bernard Arnault for "ruining their lives" by delocalising their jobs to Poland -- they make him pay
PARIS (AFP) - It's the year's least likely feelgood hit film in which the little guys take on France's richest man and end up laughing all the way to the bank.
A documentary about an unemployed middle aged couple in one of France's poorest towns so desperately in debt that they were on the point of burning their home has been playing to packed cinemas, with audiences cheering in the aisles.
"Merci Patron!" (Thanks boss!) may sound like a film to slit your wrists to, but it has become a hilarious rallying cry for thousands of French workers who have lost their jobs -- or fear losing them -- to cheaper foreign labour.
In the film, former textile workers Jocelyne and Serge Klur not only take on the "king of the catwalk" Bernard Arnault for "ruining their lives" by delocalising their jobs to Poland -- they make him pay
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