This is a very simple little French film starring Marion Cotillard. It follows a woman who is on the verge of a breakdown as she faces unemployment. She spends her weekend visiting all of her co-workers to beg them to vote to keep her even though it would mean no one would get their $1000 bonus.
Cotillard starts off with the stakes so high it's hard for her to take it anywhere else. In this way the film felt a bit forced and flat. That said, the film stuck with me and I kept coming back to it in the months after watching it in Telluride. I felt every minute of that film and I think that was a project of the film.
I am a fan of the Dardennes and recommend all of their films, particularly Le Fils, Rosetta, and L'Enfant.
4/5