La loi du marché

⭐ Featured Review

"This is a Mike Leigh/Ken Loach-style drama, great contemporary social realism, French style, and all the better for it. A middle-aged man's existence becomes precarious after he's laid-off from his skilled job. Transitioning via the unemployment industry to supermarket security guard is the challenge for our hero. His dialogue with petty bureaucracy is obviously the same in France as it is here. There is claustrophobia and frustration with the relentless, compassionless uselessness of the so-called support. Witnessing with him a check-out worker's send-off after a lifetime o..."