Jean, his loving wife, and son live a simple, happy life. At his son’s homeroom teacher Mademoiselle Chambon’s request, Jean volunteers as a substitute teacher and starts to fall for her delicate and elegant charm. His ordinary life between family and work starts to falter.

French director Stéphane Brizé turned heads when his The Measure of a Man picked up the Best Actor prize at Cannes for its star Vincent Lindon. Catch up with this auteur and his leading man by watching this 2009 collaboration: a heartfelt romance whose nuanced, incisive screenplay won Brizé a César.