Manu and Sandra Bya are
married and they have two children.
Manu has a job in a restaurant kitchen. Sandra works at a solar panel factory but she has been
hospitalized and on medical leave from her job for depression. Her supervisor, M. Dumont decides that
her section can get along without her.
The work can support sixteen people with a little overtime instead of
seventeen people and no overtime.
The company can also save money by paying annual bonuses of 1000 Euros to sixteen
people and not seventeen. Sandra
finds out the news from Juliette, her friend and also her co-worker. There was a show of hands vote on
Friday with the result 13-3 for the bonus option and elimination of Sandra’s
job. Juliette knows the section
supervisor Jean-Marc is in favor of letting Sandra go and he put pressure on the
employees to choose the bonus plan.
The news about her
job problems does not help Sandra with her depression and she starts back on her
medication. She can’t stop crying
all the time and this was her original problem. He husband encourages her to personally visit all the
workers and ask them to forgo the bonus so she can keep her job. It
seems like this would be boring with Sandra asking all the workers the same
question but she gets different attitudes and responses from each one. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
95
min, Drama directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne with Marion Cotillard,
Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salee, Batiste Sornin, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry,
Lara Persain, Alain Eloy, Myriem Akeddiou.
Note: Imdb 7.4 out of 10, 97% critic 77%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*.
Special
Note: This movie was filmed in
Seraing and Liege, Wallonia, Belgium.
Marion Cotillard was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress and she
received a 15-minute standing ovation at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Marion has little or no makeup, she wears her hair in a ponytail and has only casual clothing.
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