Screen/Society--French & Francophone Film Festival--"Two Days, One Night" ("Deux jours, une nuit")

Monday, September 28, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:45pm
Screen/Society--French & Francophone Film Festival--"Two Days, One Night"  ("Deux jours, une nuit")

Film Screening:

Two Days, One Night / Deux jours, une nuit

(Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 2014, 95 min, Belgium/France/Italy, in French w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) 

-- Introduced by Prof. Marcos Hadjiannou, Literature/AMI; Q&A to follow!

The chroniclers of the European working class, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne join forces with the Academy Award-winning Marion Cotillard as Sandra, an employee at a solar-panel factory in an industrial town in Belgium who took a leave of absence after suffering a bout of crippling depression. Eager to return to work, the wife and mother of two young children is told that management is offering each of her colleagues a 1,000 euro bonus to vote to make her redundant. Sandra, still emotionally frail, faces the daunting task of meeting with each of her 16 coworkers over the span of a weekend to convince them why they should forego the cash and let her resume her position at the company. Cotillard received her second Oscar nomination for best actress for her role in Two Days, One Night

"The ticking time-bomb nature of the plot adds a whole new level of anxiety to the Dardennes' typically uncanny depiction of human fallibility and determination. This is a humanist thriller set in the hothouse of late capitalism" --New York Magazine 

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) and the Department of Romance Studies.

Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater