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#A MEASURE OF A MAN MOVIE#

Over time, you also learn that he has a wife and a disabled son, and that he has tired of meeting his fellow laid-off workers, some of whom are still agitating to fight their former employer.In the coming-of-age drama Measure of a Man, a chubby teen named Bobby Marks (Blake Cooper) endures one of the most gruesome summers at a lake since Friday the 13th.

#A MEASURE OF A MAN MOVIE#

Lindon won the best actor prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival for this performance.) Much of the movie consists of compact, direct scenes that add details to the larger emerging portrait while providing a tangible, lived-in sense of Thierry’s ordinary life how, for instance, he holds on to a worklike routine, even if it means cleaning his family’s kitchen. Lindon’s physically reserved, inward turn as Thierry (wrinkled brow, downcast eyes) dovetails with Mr. It’s a face that has miles on it, the kind that suggests there’s a story behind every crease and can also, depending on the role, register as stoic or world-weary, brooding or slightly dangerous, sometimes all at once. Lindon has the weathered, approachable good looks of a real person (and a French movie actor). A dependable presence in contemporary French cinema whose recent credits include Claire Denis’s “ Bastards,” Mr. Lindon delivers his lines with a stubborn insistency that feels two objections away from becoming something more volatile.

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Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year. The movie opens on Thierry seated in a bureaucratic drone’s cramped, anonymous office and plaintively venting about a training course that hasn’t produced the desired results. It might also be an impossible one, though not for a lack of effort on his part.

He’s struggling to regain his equilibrium, his place in the world, his sense of personal dignity, but it’s a tough, at times humiliating struggle. Gently harrowing in its scary familiarity, the story picks up 20 months after Thierry (an excellent Vincent Lindon) was laid off from his longtime previous job. As he stands and watches, liberty seems a distant promise, as do equality and fraternity. Supplemented with the trappings of the badly paid - a stifling tie, ill-fitting jacket, squawking walkie-talkie - he embodies 21st-century labor at its most heroically alienated. There is little that’s secure about the job, which requires Thierry to view not just every customer but also each employee as a potential thief. Midway through the quiet emotional storms in the French drama “The Measure of a Man,” the hero, Thierry, begins working as a supermarket security guard.