This story of a woman who has a weekend to convince her co-workers to give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her blue-collar job earned Marion Cotillard an Oscar nomination. Cotillard is convincing as the threatened Sandra and was last blogged in The Immigrant. This one is good, but I thought Cake (not nominated) was better.
Directed and written by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (most recently in these pages for The Kid with a Bike), it features a multi-racial cast and was inspired by a real case about 10 years ago in France, followed by the brothers' learning about more instances in other countries. As in all their previous work, the Dardennes set this movie in Seraing, in Eastern Belgium, where they were born and raised.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics are loving this one, averaging 96% to audiences' 78. It has left our local theaters, so if you want to see you'll have to wait (unless you have a PAL DVD player, which isn't compatible with US standards). The American DVD release isn't set yet.
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