It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

[6] Thierry has been unemployed for 18 months, having lost his job as a factory worker.

At the age of 51, he lands a new job as a security guard in a supermarket.

The website's critical consensus reads, "With The Measure of a Man, director/co-writer Stéphane Brizé uses one man's heartrending story as a beautifully acted microcosm for life in the 21st-century global economy.

"[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 19 critics.