The Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have never made a bad movie. These painstaking writer-directors carefully prepare, rehearse for three weeks before filming, and always deliver something compelling and watchable. And the Cannes juries have responded enthusiastically over the years, rewarding them Palme d'Or awards for their first competition entry "Rosetta" in 1999 and "L'Enfant" in 2005, Best Screenplay for "The Silence of Lorna (2008) and the Grand Prix for "The Kid with the Bike" (2011). This year, the most likely win for "Two Days, One Night" is Best Actress for Marion Cotillard, by far the biggest star to join a Dardennes film. The Dardennes first approached Cotillard when they were involved in producing Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone." As soon as they met her they knew they wanted to work with her, they said in Cannes. The feeling was mutual. A longtime admirer of the Dardennes, Cotillard signed on first for...
- 5/20/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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