The Measure of a Man
La loi du marché
Synopsis
After being out of work for twenty years, fifty-one-year-old Thierry starts a new job as a security guard in a supermarket. He is soon confronted by a moral dilemma when he is asked to spy on his colleagues.
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Awards & Festivals
Cannes Film Festival
2015 | Winner: Best Actor
2015 | Special Mention: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Village Voice Film Poll
2016 | Nominee: Best Actor
Indiewire Critics' Poll
2016 | Nominee: Best Lead Actor
Brizé has cleverly cast people with an extraordinary confidence in front of the camera, which means that Lindon’s customary minimalist yet charismatic performance style blends wonderfully with the rest of the cast… More problematic is the fact that Karine is virtually silent throughout the film. She barely has a name and we have no sense of her life – we don’t know, for instance, whether she has a job or not: the film treat employment as a male issue.
Ginette Vincendeau
June 02, 2016
Brizé transposes to narrative cinema multiple formal and thematic concerns of two great nonfiction filmmakers, Farocki and Wiseman. From Wiseman, Brizé borrows a visual style rooted in long takes and weirdly compelling shots of functionaries sitting at their desks. He also adopts Wiseman’s social perspective, presenting scenes from the life of an underemployed, formerly middle-class father in such a way that they register as symbolic of the experience of an entire profession or social class.
Ben Sachs
April 22, 2016
The tight-lipped protagonist wears an expression that’s gloomier than he actually is, and the watchful Lindon, who won best actor at Cannes last May for this third collaboration with Brizé, positively sinks into the role—thanks largely to the actor’s close-to-life work, the film often feels almost more aligned with the observational rigor of a Wiseman doc than the close-in naturalism of a Dardenne Bros. fiction.
Benjamin Mercer
April 15, 2016
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