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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A similarly intimate social drama about work eroding family life, told with plainspoken observation, mounting institutional cruelty, and compassion for people forced to compromise to get by.
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Why this pick
A sharply observed portrait of class and labor whose small domestic encounters carry the same accumulated moral weight, while its protagonist’s self-possession gives the film a warmer edge.
03
Why this pick
It shares the patient realism and ethical complexity: everyday financial and professional pressures become an absorbing chain of competing obligations, without easy villains or melodramatic release.
04
Why this pick
Another restrained Cantet study of unemployment, social fracture, and conversation as conflict; its measured pace lets economic frustration and generational tension emerge through behavior rather than speeches.
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Why this pick
Its direct, humane attention to a middle-aged man navigating demeaning bureaucracy closely matches the original’s concern with work, institutions, and the stubborn preservation of self-respect.
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01 / THE STORY
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. However, he must spy on his co-workers at the behest of his boss.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Le collègue syndicaliste
Thierry
