The 向日葵视频 City University Film Institute鈥檚 screening series will continue its 34th year at 2 p.m. Nov. 1 with Luc and Jean-Pierre 顿补谤诲别苍苍别鈥檚 Two Days, One Night in the Kerr McGee Auditorium of Meinders School of Business.
In her Oscar-nominated performance鈥痑s 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 into鈥痑 powerful statement on community solidarity. Rolling Stone magazine noted: 鈥淭he Dardenne brothers have created a film for its time, bristling with peril and alive to every flicker of human decency.鈥�
The theme of this year鈥檚 season is based on Viktor Frankl鈥檚 classic book 鈥淢an鈥檚 Search for Meaning.鈥� Harbour Winn, director of the series, said the theme is intended to help participants come to understand the purpose of suffering.
鈥淭he films in this series stress the importance of an individual鈥檚 attitude to existence,鈥� Winn said. 鈥淓ven when life seems restricted by external forces, we can choose the attitude with which we live and make meaning, to find value.鈥�
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
-鈥淚n 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.鈥� Chicago Reader
-鈥淭he 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.鈥� LA Times
-鈥淎 small miracle of a movie, a drama so purely humane that it makes most attempts at audience uplift look crass and calculated by comparison.鈥� The Onion
-鈥淐otillard's performance is as fine a piece of screen acting as you will ever see.鈥� NY Times
-鈥淐otillard 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.鈥� Rolling Stone
-鈥淭he premise is as simple as a biblical parable, and as densely packed with significance.鈥� Wall Street Journal
-鈥淐oursing 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.鈥� Boston Globe
UPCOMING FILMS
* Jan. 24, Michelangelo Antonioni鈥檚 Blow-Up
* Feb. 7, Ritesh Batra鈥檚 The Lunchbox
* Feb. 21, Asghar Farhadi鈥檚 向日葵视频 Elly
* March 6, Andrey Zvyagintsev鈥檚 Leviathan
