Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #100. Stephane Brize’s A Simple Man

A Simple Man

Director: Stephane Brize // Writer: Stephane Brize

This will be the sixth film from director Stephane Brize, perhaps best known for his Cesar award winning 2009 film, Mademoiselle Chambon. Known for working class character studies, though his last feature, 2012’s Locarno premiered A Few Hours of Spring (see pic above) never received US distribution. His latest, which will reunite Brize for the third time with Vincent Lindon, looks to be in a similar vein. While Brize’s profile has been slow to rise in the US, he should be a name of note, recalling early works of Laurent Cantet or the Dardenne Bros. In A Simple Man, Lindon (pic above) plays Laurent, a man who starts a new job as a security guard and is asked to spy on his colleagues.

Cast: Vincent Lindon

Producers: Nord-Ouest Productions’ Christophe Rossugnon and Philip Boeffard (Les combattants)

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

Release Date: Filming currently in the outskirts of Paris, the film could wrap and be ready in time for Cannes, where it would most likely end up in Director’s Fortnight or, more likely, Un Certain Regard. Brize has not premiered at Cannes since his 1999 premiere, Blue Cities (Le bleu des villes).

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