2 jours 1 nuit marion cotillard biography

Almost immediately after returning to her factory job following a mental health leave, Sandra is laid off because her fellow line workers voted to receive a bonus rather than to keep her as the seventeenth person on the team. When she learns that their team leader persuaded them to vote against her under false pretenses, Sandra convinces the plant manager to hold a second, secret vote. It’s now Friday afternoon, leaving Sandra only two days and one night to save her job and, quite possibly, the life her family knows. Swallowing her pride, Sandra sets out to convince her sixteen co-workers, one by one, to vote in her favor.

Partnering with their long-time collaborator cinematographer Alain Marcoen, the Dardennes shot the film in their signature realist style. Adhering to their story’s procedural rhythm with long takes and handheld shots, they envelop us in Sandra’s world and bring the human face of Europe’s economic crisis to the fore. (Kerri Craddock)

Credits

On my second last day in Cannes I decided to skip the 8:30 a.m. press screening, in favor of sleep. Exhaustion is an occupational hazard at Cannes when trying to cram in three movies a day, meals, sleep and writing coverage. The film I was missing was “The Search,” the latest by Michel Hazanavicius, best known for his overly praised silent film, “The Artist.” I was dreading seeing it anyway, as Chuck Williamson (@ch_williamson), on Twitter summed it up: “A two-and-a-half hour film set in war-torn Chechnya directed by Michel Hazanavicius = my personal hell.” It received almost exclusively bad reviews.

If you’re willing to wait to see a film until the day after all of the press frenzy and buzz, you can see it at a more reasonable time, with a shorter line-up and priority access. At most screenings, there’s a rank order of press passes, and if you’ve got the lowest priority badge, like this journalist, you can line up for two hours and not even get in. But at La Salle du Soixantième, where day-after screenings are held, I showed up at about 11:15 a.m. for a 12 p.m. screening and was maybe 50th in the press line, which gets let in first. By that time, there were already hundreds of people in line with industry badges, referred to as “Marché de Film,” who only get access to the screenings after all the press are seated.

I was there to see the new film by two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, “Deux Jours, Une Nuit,” starring Marion Cotillard. The day before, people were praising it as a masterpiece, predicting a long-overdue Cannes Best Actress award for Cotillard, and a third Palme for the Belgian brothers. But one of the things I’ve learned here on the Croisette this week is that reviews at the festival tend to be hyperbolic: critics denounce mediocre films as utter trash and call merely good films ‘masterpieces.’

Because there are relatively f

Marion Cotillard (born September 30, 1975) is a French stage and movie actress, and singer.

Career

She made her career well known by roles in such movies as in La Vie en Rose, My Sex Life...or How I Got Into an Argument, Taxi, Furia, Jeux d'enfants and A Very Long Engagement. She has also appeared in movies like Big Fish, A Good Year, Public Enemies, Nine, Inception, Midnight in Paris, Contagion, The Dark Knight Rises and Rust and Bone.

In 2007, Cotillard starred as a French singer in Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. For that role she won the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, the César Award, and the Golden Globe Award for best actress. She made movie history by becoming the first person to win an Academy Award for a French language performance. In 2010 she received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the musical Nine.

Early Life and Family

Cotillard was born in Paris, France on September 30, 1975 to Jean Claude-Cotillard who is an actor, former mime, and a Molière Award-winning director. Cotillard's mother Monique (known as Niseema) Theillaud, is also an actress and a drama teacher. She has two younger twin brothers, Quentin and Guillaume. Guillaume is a screenwriter and director. She began acting during her childhood, appearing on stage for her father's plays.

Personal life

Cotillard currently lives with her partner Guillaume Canet. Many reports say the couple prefers to live a simple lifestyle, and they are often spotted in cafes and shopping together in Paris. Neither of the two discusses their relationship with the media, although photos of the couple regularly surface in the European tabloids. On May 20, 2011, the couple had their first child called Marcel.

Filmography

Feature films