films 2014

How would react if you lose your job in Two Days, One Night?

By Jenny Alvarez

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 Two Days, One Night, the latest masterwork of humanism from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time winners of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Featuring a profoundly moving performance from Oscar® winner Marion Cotillard.

 Sandra (Cotillard) has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can hope to regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. Now, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes before time runs out. Certainly it is a film that reflects the working-class Belgian life. In one side shows a sense of solidarity, the other side shows the ambition for money. During 95 minutes, the main character is in the most desperate situation but at the same time her supporters also have to face difficulties. Despite of Sandra, who is recovering from a spell of depression has to solve her worries over the economic crisis, and her performance is one of the best especially when in this film the Dardennes take an urgent and extremely relevant ethical inquiry and support of the closer coworkers and the end the results are unexpected with a powerful statement on community solidarity which human tradeoffs are purely reflected.