Two Days, One Night (2014)
Funny how a story about a woman losing her job can be so much more tense and emotional than the one of a woman losing her mind we saw just a couple of days back.
Marion Cotillard (my pick for the best actress prize at the Oscars) is so very good here as a blue collar employee ready to come back to work after extended leave for depression and finding that the employees have voted for a bonus rather than for her to keep her job. Her only hope of being reinstated is to spend her weekend tracking down and talking to those who voted for the bonus over her in an attempt to convince enough of them to change their minds.
This could have been so tedious and, indeed, at times it was flat-out repetitive -- but it was also triumphant. Although she is still suffering crying jags and feelings of low self-worth, she makes herself follow through, with her husband encouraging her along the way.
B+
Marion Cotillard (my pick for the best actress prize at the Oscars) is so very good here as a blue collar employee ready to come back to work after extended leave for depression and finding that the employees have voted for a bonus rather than for her to keep her job. Her only hope of being reinstated is to spend her weekend tracking down and talking to those who voted for the bonus over her in an attempt to convince enough of them to change their minds.
This could have been so tedious and, indeed, at times it was flat-out repetitive -- but it was also triumphant. Although she is still suffering crying jags and feelings of low self-worth, she makes herself follow through, with her husband encouraging her along the way.
B+
Labels: 2014, Bplus, Drama, Oscar Nominee
posted by MeMe | 6:15 PM
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