The Measure of a Man

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Claudio C La loi du marché / The Measure of a Man (2015) The Life of a Middle-Aged Worker Unemployed (12,063 – 14 Nov 2025 – by Claudio Carvalho) Thierry Taugourdeau (Vincent Lindon) is an unemployed middle-aged worker with low professional qualifications. He is a family man, married with a disabled son, looking for a job. Along his journey of twenty months, he is humiliated in interviews; he tries to sell his house to raise some money to support his family, but the buyer tries to explore him by reducing the price. He finally finds a job as security guard of a supermarket and has to face sad situations. "La loi du marché", a.k.a. "The Measure of a Man" (2015), is a film with a simple story of the life of a middle-aged worker unemployed. The plot does not have anything special, but the performances make the movie extremely realistic. Vincent Lindon’s character, Thierry, is impressively calm and passive despite his financial situation since he knows the importance of finding a job to support his family. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "O Valor de um Homem" ("The Value of a Man") My Blog: https://maniacosporfilme.wordpress.com/ Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/14/25 Full Review Nawt W Ironically, it takes too long for the movie to give Vincent Lindon a job, making the first half of the movie a domestic montage that perpetually drives home a single point: unqualified people do not get priority on the job market. I've seen it done miles better in "Mondays in the Sun," without resorting to static, 5-minute-long dialogue scenes. The subsequent job sure ends up being the most thoughtful part of the movie, as Thierry tries to balance shreds of his integrity with being a wage slave in a cage. Ultimately, the measure of a man is apparently not snitching on your coworkers' petty thefts because the working class needs to shoplift to survive. This is a silly observation, but what is even sillier is the director's belief that this ending is in any way a defiance of capitalism's windmill. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Todos pasamos por algo similar al buscar trabajo y cuando pasan cosas raras en los trabajos. 4 stars Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review richard i It's a lot to ask of Vincent Lindon to carry this whole film, but he does his excellent best with a story in which we find precious little out about him, really, other than that he accepts his lot with a certain amount of stoicism, while the people around him remain fairly opaque to us. The clearly largely improvised script is delivered convincingly on the whole, but the attempt to give us an 'insight' into the way capitalism divides us is a bit fluffed and has been done better before. Nowhere near as good as Mademoiselle Chambon, a true classic of this observational genre. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Extremely slow and meticulous, but totally realistic. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member This Cannes-winning sociological drama gives a discerning gaze with fly-on-the-wall long takes on the adversities braved on by a stoic French unemployed everyman and his painful moral dilemma on the other side of the fence in his later employment as a supermarket security guard. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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