Synopsis
François Ruffin is determined to re-establish a dialogue between the richest man in the world, Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury group LVMH, and the workers he has dismissed over the years. In northern France, Ruffin meets Serge and Jocelyne Klur, former employees of a Kenzo suit factory, relocated to Poland under Arnault’s orders. Seeing that the Klurs live in extreme poverty and that their debts are piling up, the journalist decides to make their story heard at a general meeting of LVMH. Expelled from the meeting, Ruffin and the unemployed couple do not give up, imagining instead a twisted plan worthy of Robin Hood.
A word from Tënk
After watching Thanks Boss! sent us in October 2015 by François Ruffin to get our opinion as experts on oligarchy before its theatrical release in 2016, I called him to check if reality was indeed exceeding fiction. Yes, it is indeed humour and derision that the rebellious journalist has mobilized in this incredible fight against the iron law of the first fortune of France, Bernard Arnault, owner of the LVMH group.
The amusing protest against the unemployment of employees to accelerate the accumulation of this globalized luxury empire – supported by the song of the Charlots Merci patron! – will end positively for the leading couple of the film, thus showing the fragility of the powerful and their special attention to everything that can tarnish their image as entrepreneurs and creators of jobs!
This film magnificently illustrates Seneca's maxim: "It is not because things seem difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they seem difficult!"
Monique Pinçon-Charlot
Sociologue
