The Measure of a Man



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Alternate/Foreign Title: Un Homme [Working title], La loi du marché [Original title]

DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2016-09-13

Genre: Foreign

Sub-genre: Drama

Director: Stéphane Brizé

Stars: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller, Yves Ory, Xavier Mathieu, Paul Portoleau, Pierre-Jean Feld, Philippe Vesco, Christophe Rossignon, Noël Mairot (voice), Catherine Saint-Bonnet

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Synopsis: Vincent Lindon gives his finest performance to date as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, an interview-coaching workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow jobseekers all are mechanisms that seek to break him down and strip him of identity and self-respect in the name of reengineering of a workforce fit for a neoliberal technocratic system. Nothing if not determinist, Stéphane Brizé's film dispassionately monitors the progress of its stoic protagonist until at last he lands a job on the front line in the surveillance and control of his fellow man and finally faces one too many moral dilemmas. A powerful and deeply troubling vision of the realities of our new economic order.     Source: RottenTomatoes.com


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