The Ļć½¶Šć University Film Instituteās screening series will continue its 34th year at 2 p.m. Nov. 1 with Luc and Jean-Pierre ¶Ł²¹°ł»å±š²Ō²Ō±šās Two Days, One Night in the Kerr McGee Auditorium of Meinders School of Business.
In her Oscar-nominated performanceāÆas best actress in Two Days, One Night, Marion Cotillard as Sandra has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can hope to regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. Now, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes before time runs out.
With Two Days, One Night, the Dardennes turned a relevant social inquiry intoāÆa powerful statement on community solidarity. Rolling Stone magazine noted: āThe Dardenne brothers have created a film for its time, bristling with peril and alive to every flicker of human decency.ā
The theme of this yearās season is based on Viktor Franklās classic book āManās Search for Meaning.ā Harbour Winn, director of the series, said the theme is intended to help participants come to understand the purpose of suffering.
āThe films in this series stress the importance of an individualās attitude to existence,ā Winn said. āEven when life seems restricted by external forces, we can choose the attitude with which we live and make meaning, to find value.ā
The screening will begin at 2:00PM at the Kerr McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business at NW 27th Street and McKinley Ave. A discussion will follow the presentation for those who wish to stay. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.
ACCOLADES FOR TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
-āIn film after film the Dardennes have proven themselves the cinema's most acute humanist critics of predatory capitalism; this masterful drama finds them at the top of their game.ā Chicago Reader
-āThe Dardennes take us into the ecosystem of need. By the time they are through, they've cut a wide swath that covers most of the issues of the working class.ā LA Times
-āA small miracle of a movie, a drama so purely humane that it makes most attempts at audience uplift look crass and calculated by comparison.ā The Onion
-āCotillard's performance is as fine a piece of screen acting as you will ever see.ā NY Times
-āCotillard is magnificent, her luminous eyes reflecting a soul in crisis. The Dardenne brothers have created a film for its time, bristling with peril and alive to every flicker of human decency.ā Rolling Stone
-āThe premise is as simple as a biblical parable, and as densely packed with significance.ā Wall Street Journal
-āCoursing underneath the film's calm, observant surface is a fury at a system that sets people in the same leaky boat at each other's throats.ā Boston Globe
UPCOMING FILMS
* Jan. 24, Michelangelo Antonioniās Blow-Up
* Feb. 7, Ritesh Batraās The Lunchbox
* Feb. 21, Asghar Farhadiās About Elly
* March 6, Andrey Zvyagintsevās Leviathan
