Petites mains (2024)

Petites mains (2024). 1h 27m

“This is most excellentu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu003culu003eu003cliu003eit shows the cleaning ladies of a Luxury Hotel 16.000 Euros/night (more than these women earn in a year) for the top suite getting reamed by management and farmed out services sub-contractors and all these beautiful weapons of Neoliberalism/Globalism etc etcu003c/liu003eu003c/ulu003eu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu003culu003eu003cliu003efor examples they are not even given enough vacuum cleaners to do the punishing gymkhana tasks they are asked to do some of their overtime is not even renumeratedu003c/liu003eu003c/ulu003eu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu003culu003eu003cliu003eIt shows how unless put under extreme pressure they will not EVER care about les petites mains / helpers /the little people who keep their establishment runningu003c/liu003eu003c/ulu003eu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu003culu003eu003cliu003eMost of these exploited women are West-Africans also struggling with residency issues with The Stateu003c/liu003eu003c/ulu003eu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu003culu003eu003cliu003eIt is done very stylishly here we have a main actress quite magnetic she is too but really it is about all of them here; and in a wider fashion all the exploited of modern-day capitalist shenanigansu003c/liu003eu003c/ulu003eu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu003culu003eu003cliu003eWe are for British/Anglo-saxon viewers in Ken Loach territory here deep in it in factu003c/liu003eu003c/ulu003eu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMore of these films need to be made; this one here a fine example. If you are interested in social justice and the obscene excesses of Capitalism treat yourself to this.”