Kino Lorber Acquires THE MEASURE OF A MAN

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Measure is at once compassionate, engrossing from start to finish, and utterly relevant.”
Geoff Andrew, Time Out London

The Measure of a Man gives us … a superhero whose only special power is his towering grace.”
Scott Foundas, Variety

NEW YORK – Kino Lorber has acquired all US and Canadian rights to Stephane Brizé’s (Mademoiselle Chambon) THE MEASURE OF A MAN, starring Vincent Lindon (Mademoiselle Chambon, Bastards, Friday Night, La Moustache), winner of the Best Actor award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film was directed by Mr. Brizé and co-written by Brizé and Olivier Gorce. This is Stephane Brizé’s sixth feature film.

Featuring “an all-consuming lead performance from Lindon” (Jordan Mintzer, THR.com) as a working-class man struggling with unemployment and then, facing a difficult moral choice as a security guard in a supermarket, Brizé supports his lead with a brilliantly directed cast of non-professional performers playing dramatized versions of themselves.

The film has been dubbed by critics as “an impressive foray into social drama” (Jordan Mintzer) and “French social critique at its finest” (Benjamin Dodman, The Atlantic), and continues an already-trailblazing partnership between Mr. Brizé and Mr. Lindon, which started with Mademoiselle Chambon and was followed by A Few Hours of Spring and now, THE MEASURE OF A MAN.

Kino Lorber, which released Stephane Brizé’s Mademoiselle Chambon in the United States to both critical acclaim and box office success (grossing over $530,000 in theaters alone), is planning to release the film in theatres in the fall of 2015, after prestigious North American festival dates. Home media and digital releases will follow in 2016.

The deal was negotiated between Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber and MK2’s International Sales & Business Development executive Victoire Thevenin.

Richard Lorber comments: “Cannes brought us the gift to work again with Stephane Brizé and Vincent Lindon, after our great success with their Mademoiselle Chambon. With THE MEASURE OF A MAN’s hugely deserved Best Actor honor, we’re keen to share this gift with North American audiences. This deeply moving performance and uniquely framed tale delivers a profound new humanistic insight into questions of economic justice.”

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