ARTS & CULTURE
Vie en Rose – is a luminous pill-popping heroine.
With her quiet air of embarrassment tinged with
pride, Cotillard moves past naturalism into something hard to describe and impossible to doubt.
Enriched by signature qualities – the nonjudgmental gaze, the ultra-naturalistic style – that have
always distinguished writer-directors Jean-Pierre
and Luc Dardenne’s fine body of work, Two Days,
One Night balances the trademark Dardennes social
conscience with a conceit that plays out almost like a
ticking-clock thriller, yet maintains an organic sensibility. If it just misses the utter anguish of L’enfant,
Two Days, One Night is up there with Rosetta or The
Son in its cast-iron purpose, taking us into the ecosystem of need.
Two Days, One Night delivers its messa