Vincent Lindon (winner of Best Actor at least year's Cannes) gives a superb performance as a laid-off factory worker battling to fend for his family and retain compassion and integrity at the bottom of the heap in this gripping, fiercely intelligent drama.

Unemployed for over two years, Thierry (Lindon) is trying to get back into the job market whilst doing his best to make ends meet. Futile training courses that lead to dead ends, interviews via Skype, coaching workshops that critique his presentation... they're all quietly humiliating ordeals he has to endure. But when he lands a job in surveillance, he finally faces one too many moral dilemmas. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?

A powerful and deeply troubling vision of the realities of today's economy, The Measure of a Man is engrossing from start to finish, and utterly relevant.

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