Sandra (Marion Cotillard) has one weekend to convince at least nine of her fellow employees to vote to keep her at their job. If they do, they lose a thousand-euro bonus. She goes to each one of them personally to ask them to vote against their self-interest in order for her to not be fired.
This is a deeply uncomfortable movie. Sandra is coming off a leave of absence for anxiety/depression and then has to travel all over the city to confront a majority of co-workers, many of whom are also just getting by, and ask them to forgo a huge bonus. That fucking sucks.
Cotillard is a phenomenal actress and conveys Sandra's exhaustion and nerves believably. I found the film dragged, however, because she's essentially saying the same thing over and over. The camera work is prosaic, focusing almost exclusively on Sandra in close to medium shots. It's probably meant to emphasize her anxiety but it just made me not as visually interested in the film. It's currently streaming on Kanopy.
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