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.
[1] 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.
[1][2] 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.