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| Sandra (Marion Cotillard) asks her boss for another chance at keeping her job in Two Days, One Night. (Photo courtesy of the New York Film Festival.) |
Yesterday, the press at The New York Film Festival screened the new Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne feature Two Days, One Night (95 minutes), which stars French actor Marion Cotillard (The Immigrant, 2013). It will have its New York premier at the festival on October 5th and 6th.
If you have a soft spot for Martin Ritt’s Norma Rae (1979), this movie is for you. It is a bit of a slow burn, not the usual swift pacing of the Belgian filmmakers’ other movies, but worth seeing for its uplifting tale about a working mom fighting for her factory job. Sandra, who is recovering from a mental breakdown, has apparently had trouble readjusting to her work environment; that provides her boss with a ready excuse to reduce staff. The Dardenne Brothers are known for their authentic portrayals of working-class characters: Nearly all of their films are set in the industrial city of Seraing, in the Liege province where they were born and still reside.
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| Sandra and her coworkers in a still from the Dardenne Brothers new feature film, Two Days, One Night. (Photo courtesy of the New York Film Festival.) |
