One review on 26 May 2019

2015

The Measure of a Man

Director : Stéphane Brizé 

synopsis extract: Unemployed man gets a job as security in a supermarket and ends up walking out when he finds himself manoeuvred into complicity in sacking staff on spurious grounds to reduce costs.

Cast:

  • Vincent Lindon 
  • Karine de Mirbeck 
  • Matthieu Schaller 

Film Category
The 2010s
First Seen: Sun 26th May 2019
Catalogued: 22nd Dec 2024

Synopsis

Unemployed man gets a job as security in a supermarket and ends up walking out when he finds himself manoeuvred into complicity in sacking staff on spurious grounds to reduce costs.

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by Roger on Sun 26th May 2019 DVD proj @ home

Review of "The Measure of a Man"

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A bit the same territory as Daniel Blake in the first third, but without the edge, and then going on to follow him into shit work. Excellent sparse performance by the lead (Vincent Lindon) but in the end curiously unsatisfying. The underlying desperation of all the characters in Daniel Blake was missing, somehow you felt that they would all be ok despite everything, which was certainly not the outcome of Loach's masterpiece.
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