Two Days, One Night
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Short description
Sandra, a wife and mother of two, returns to her job at a small company after a period of depression, only to find that her colleagues have voted to let her go so they can keep their annual bonuses. Management agrees to hold a second vote, giving her a single weekend to change the outcome. Aided by her husband Manu, she goes from door to door visiting each coworker, asking them to give up the money they depend on for rent and school costs so that she can keep her position.
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne directed and wrote the film, which followed The Kid with a Bike among the features they released and preceded The Unknown Girl. Marion Cotillard plays Sandra, with Fabrizio Rongione as Manu, Catherine Salée, Pili Groyne, Baptiste Sornin and Simon Caudry in supporting roles. Produced in Belgium, Italy and France, it runs 95 minutes.
Its reported budget was 7 million USD, and it took about 9 million USD worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.3/10 from 52,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.9/10 from 1,034 votes. A film critics' rating of 8.4/10 from 182 reviews places it well above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Scenes featuring Marion Cotillard were filmed in seven-minute takes. The maximum number of takes required to film a single scene was 82.
- Marion Cotillard agreed to star in the film even before reading the script.
- The film's scenes were shot in chronological order.
- Filming took place in Serain, Belgium. This is an industrial town in the French-speaking region of Belgium where Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne were born and raised.
- Marion Cotillard first met director Jean-Pierre Dardenne in 2011 on the set of "Rust and Bone" (2012). Dardenne was a producer on that film. Their meeting was accidental, as Cotillard was exiting an elevator with her child. It was then that Dardenne offered her to work together.
- In an interview, the Dardenne brothers said that they drew inspiration from "12 Angry Men" (1957) when preparing to film "Two Days, One Night." When asked about similarities with "High Noon" (1952), they replied that the character of Marion Cotillard may resemble Grace Kelly from that film, but they hadn't even thought about it while writing the script.
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