New Arrival Two Days, One Night (#771)

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard received another nomination for her searing, deeply felt performance as a working-class woman desperate to hold on to her factory job, in this gripping film from master Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Cotillard is Sandra, a wife and mother who suffers from depression and discovers that, while she was home on sick leave, a majority of her coworkers voted in favor of her being laid off over giving up their annual bonuses. She then spends a Saturday and Sunday visiting them each in turn, to try to convince them to change their minds. From this simple premise, the Dardennes create a powerfully humane drama about the importance of community in an increasingly impersonal world.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 2K digital master, supervised by director of photography Alain Marcoen and approved by directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• New interviews with the Dardennes and actors Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione
• When Leon M.s Boat Went Down the Meuse for the First Time(1979), a forty-minute documentary by the Dardennes, featuring a new introduction by the directors
• New tour of the films key locations with the directors
• To Be an I,a new video essay by critic Kent Jones
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu

  New cover by Eric Skillman