Marion Cotillard

Fabrizio Rongione

Catherine Salée

Pili Groyne

Baptiste Sornin

Simon Caudry

Lara Persain

Alain Eloy

Myriem Akheddiou

Fabienne Sciascia

Anette Niro

Rania Mellouli

Christelle Delbrouck

Timur Magomedgadzhiev

Hassaba Halabi

Soufiane Jilal

Hicham Slaoui

Philippe Jeusette

Yohan Zimmer

Safia Gollas

Christelle Cornil

Marion Lory

Angélique Michaux

Laurent Caron

Joachim Vincent

Donovan Deroulez

Tom Adjibi

Elena Doratiotto

Franck Laisné

Maïdy Ankaye

Alao Kasongo

Serge Koto

Morgan Marinne

Gianni La Rocca

Ben Hamidou

Carl Jadot

Olivier Gourmet

Sabine Raskin

Carmela Nicosia

Dimitri Mouton

Camelia Jawhari

Moli Limet

Henia Missoumi

Alia Perée

Zeyd Sen

Corentin Lahaye

Alix Toussaint

Damien Trapletti

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Luc Dardenne

Denis Freyd

Igor Gabriel

Alain Marcoen

Marie-Hélène Dozo

Maïra Ramedhan Levi

Delphine Tomson

Pascal Joris

Rachel Beeckmans

Mike Carpino

Virginie Berland

Arlette Zylberberg

Dominique Eyraud

Frederic Jupin

Jean-Pierre Duret

Thomas Gauder

Valène Leroy

Philippe Groff

Marika Piedboeuf

Benoît De Clerck

Peter Bouckaert

Ludivine Ducrocq

Tanguy Delhez

Valerio De Paolis

Thierry Delobel

Renaud Anciaux

Nathalie Tabareau

Philippe Toussaint

Tristan Meunier

Caroline Tambour

Philippe Fontaine

Jean-Stephane Garbe

Drama

Deux jours, une nuit

Les Films du Fleuve

Archipel 33>35

BiM Distribuzione

Eyeworks

France 2 Cinéma

RTBF

Belgacom

Belgium

France

Italy

Definitely good, though only thanks to Marion Cotillard's excellent performance.

The premise is intriguing and features some emotional scenes, there's one with Timur (Timur Magomedgadzhiev) that particularly hit me in the feels out of nowhere; it's not even the most gut-wrenching part of the film, yet it made me feel something the most.

The camera work et al. isn't all that great, the dialogue is especially underwhelming. Perhaps I was noticing it more due to viewing with subtitles, but there's a lot of moments where we see Sandra (Cotillard) retrace the same steps with each individual - it gets repetitive.

Cotillard, though, is top notch. She brings so much emotion and realness with her, nailing every single scene to deserve notable props. Away from the Parisian, there aren't any others to note; they are all fine but I would've loved a more meaty cast.

I'd be rating it a level lower if it wasn't for the lead, who is easily the best thing to come out of <em>'Two Days, One Night'</em>.

CinemaSerf

I really wasn't sure of the premiss at first here, but a strong effort from a Marion Cotillard-led cast of natural acting talent does actually bring it off well. We learn that there's been a sort of a referendum at her workplace where the boss has given them a choice. The staff can keep their €1,000 bonus or they can forgo that and "Sandra" gets to keep her job. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she's lost that ballot but when she discovers that one of her colleagues was briefing against her and doing some scaremongering, she manages to get "Dumont" (Baptiste Sornin) to agree to allow another vote. Now she, and her husband "Manu" (Fabrizio Rongione) have to embark on some whistle-stop diplomacy as she must try to convince her workmates that she is a price worth paying. This film is told very much from her perspective, so we are aware of just how strenuous this is for her and her family. She needs the work - for the money, yes, but also for her sanity. The others, however, well we only really encounter them in brief soundbite form as she tries to pitch to them. We don't really learn about their own predicaments nor are we really given much understanding of just how crucial this sum of money might be to them and their own families. It's that developing scenario that didn't quite work for me here, but there's no denying the almost visceral effort delivered by Cotillard as an increasingly frustrated "Sandra" who finds herself more and more emotionally drained as the weekend takes it's toll on everyone. The writing and the direction are potent and taut and it does invite us to ask what we might do in similar circumstances as colleagues or as one struggling with the psychology this dilemma poses.