This film was released 3rd June 2016, and is no longer screening.

★★★★ The Irish Times

Exclusively at the IFI.

A victim of factory downsizing, Thierry (Vincent Lindon) has been out of work for over a year; with special needs schooling for his teenage son on the horizon and sundry other demands on his meagre unemployment benefit, something must give in order to make ends meet. Being on the wrong side of 50 proves an added obstacle, a fact made abundantly clear to him in humiliating job centre training exercises. Landing security guard work for a company trying to weed out petty theft, Thierry finds himself in a compromised position, spying on those even less fortunate than himself.

This is Stéphane Brizé’s most overtly political film, his third with Vincent Lindon (winner of Best Actor at Cannes), which takes a leaf from the Dardennes‘ book in its low-key social realist aesthetic and humanist, quietly angry concern for the marginalised everyman.

FRENCH FILM CLUB

Our French Film Club screening– where IFI and Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – will be on June 8th.