title: Workers for the Good Lord
text: # Workers for the Good Lord
  
  Workers for the Good Lord (French: Les Savates du bon Dieu) is a 2000 French crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Stanislas Merhar, Raphaële Godin, Emil Abossolo-Mbo, Paulette Dubost and Coralie Revel. The film was chosen by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Elodie, tired of her husband Fred's generous ways, endangering the family's finances, dumps him when he gets fired. Emotionally devastated, he turns into a modern Robin Hood, robbing a post office to help a beggar, and escapes in a stolen car with Sandrine, who has long had a crush on him. They meet Maguette, an African prince turned into a penniless exile. Together the three head south.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Stanislas Merhar as Fred
  * Raphaële Godin [fr] as Sandrine
  * Emil Abossolo-Mbo as Maguette
  * Coralie Revel [fr] as Elodie
  * Paulette Dubost as grandmother
  * Philippe Caroit as Jacques
  * Christian Pernet as mechanic
  * Romain R'Bibo as Miguel
  * Samir Fouzari as Marouf
  * Abder-Kader Dahou as Kamel
  * Albert Montias as Mangin
  * Fabienne Poncet as postmaster
  * Aurélie Sterling as Nina
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Lisa Nesselson of Variety described the film as "a radical genre pastiche", "over the top", "extravagantly lensed, socio-romantic experiment" adding, "It's so bad it's good."
  
  