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- 2014
- PG-13
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 35 m
- 2014
- PG-13
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Sandra (Marion Cotillard) has just returned to work after recovering from a serious bout with depression. Realizing that the company can operate with one fewer employee, management tells Sandra she is to be let go. After learning that her co-workers will vote to decide her fate on Monday morning, Sandra races against time over the course...
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Written By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
- 2014
- PG-13
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 35 m
- 2014
- PG-13
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 35 m
Two Days, One Night
8.4
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Summary Sandra (Marion Cotillard) has just returned to work after recovering from a serious bout with depression. Realizing that the company can operate with one fewer employee, management tells Sandra she is to be let go. After learning that her co-workers will vote to decide her fate on Monday morning, Sandra races against time over the course...
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Written By: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
89
92% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
8% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
89
92% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
8% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Cotillard gets so persuasively inside Sandra’s skin that it’s not at all surprising that this performance has earned her another Oscar nomination. And she does so without resorting to shameless, award-baiting grandstanding.
Two Days, One Night is a small miracle of a movie, a drama so purely humane that it makes most attempts at audience uplift look crass and calculated by comparison.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 215 User Ratings
8.4
86% Positive
184 Ratings
184 Ratings
13% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
1% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 215 User Ratings
8.4
86% Positive
184 Ratings
184 Ratings
13% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
1% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
What an amazing movie. This is proof you don’t need car crashes and explosions. This is a real, emotional, human story. Loved it all around!
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**** of the profound films ever made. Captivating Storyline. ..... Extraordinary Acting..Mario Is as Always best at what she does.
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Two Days, One Night is deceptively slight of drama; it's simply a procession of real moments encountered by a simple character deserving more happiness than life allows, fleshed out by an extraordinary actor.
The awkwardness, the humiliation and the central unfairness of the position these folks have been put in is what filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne are exploring in Two Days, One Night — a slice of pressurized middle-class life they've made so real, it feels a bit like a documentary.
Cotillard, who earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, plays the character as a woman hanging on by the barest of threads.
This is another hugely admirable entry in the Dardenne canon: nothing all that new, perhaps, but as thoughtful, humane and superbly composed as we have, very fortunately, come to expect from them.
Two Days, One Night offers a look into the lives of the everyday workers of the world -- the ones for whom a thousand-euro bonus (about $1,100 U.S.) can solve a heck of a lot of problems.
On Friday afternoon, a factory worker (Marion Cotillard) is told that she'll be laid off on Monday if her colleagues vote for their bonuses instead of her. She has the weekend to visit each of them and state her case. To complicate matters, she's recovering from a serious depression. Each encounter adds a layer of humanity to her plight, but the drama is diluted by so much footage of her walking from house to house. Although it's never dull, the pace is deliberate and the emotions are often underplayed. Cotillard (nominated for an Oscar), is convincing, but the brilliance of her performance eludes me. This will be best appreciated by those who enjoy a quiet character study in the foreign film style.
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Despite a capable (though somewhat-overrated) performance by Marion Cotillard and some thoughtful social messages, this exercise in narrative repetition grows tiresome as the film wears on, offering audiences fewer rewards than what the picture's premise seems to promise. Even with a scant runtime of only 1:35, the story tries the patience of viewers with the most resilient of attention spans. Wait for this one to come to DVD or cable before plunking down the cost of a full-priced theater ticket.
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A uniquely simple idea makes for unusual albeit limited cinema. The story is of one woman's attempt to get her job back in the period of time stipulated by the title. To do this she has to convince her fellow workers to fore go their bonus in order for her to be reinstated. Marion Cotillard is the film's ace card and she gives a perfectly judged, nuanced performance elevating the slight material to a higher plane than it may have otherwise achieved. Unfortunately, the body of the film is, by the very nature of its content, to repetitive to really excite. Most of the central act shows Cotillard making house calls in an attempt to rally co-workers to her cause. Ultimately, though, these events leave one only mildly interested rather than compelled.
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This is one of the dullest movies I've ever watched. Even the premise is dull. There's no real exposition at any point, which does not help.
This woman goes around asking her coworkers to vote so she can keep her job. If they vote against her, they get pay bonuses. The coworkers say "yes" or "no." Then at the end, they vote. That's it. That's the whole movie.
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Production Company
Les Films du Fleuve,
Archipel 35,
BIM Distribuzione,
Eyeworks,
France 2 Cinéma,
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF),
Belgacom,
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
VOO,
Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds,
Eurimages,
Canal+,
Ciné+,
France Télévisions,
La Wallonie,
Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge,
Casa Kafka Pictures,
Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius,
Cinéfinance Tax Shelter,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
Diaphana Distribution
Release Date Dec 24, 2014
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Magritte Awards, Belgium
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
