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Those Who Care

Those Who Care

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 27, 2021

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

76%

Original Title

Debout les femmes !

Production Companies

Les 400 clous, jour2fête, Fakir

Director

François Ruffin

Description

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.