Marianne (Juliette Binoche, right) pretends to be a housekeeper in order to write a book regarding these invisible workers. © Frenetic Films
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Posted on 11.01.2022
Emmanuel Carrère adapts a journalistic survey on housekeepers
Olivier Wyser
Ouistreham ”It all started with a survey carried out by Florence Aubenas, journalist at Le Monde, who published Le Quai de Ouistreham in 2010. In this book, which has become a bestseller, the author takes on the role of a precarious worker, a cleaning lady employed by companies in the Caen region. An autobiographical story, crowned with numerous literary prizes, recounting a six-month immersion in the daily life of small hands who work long and hard for a pittance. The case should have stopped there, since Florence Aubenas had so far always refused to assign the rights to her work with a view to a film adaptation.
It was without counting on the tenacity of Juliette Binoche. The actress was able to convince the writer of the in
