Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
"A quest for self-improvement"
Top Billed Cast
Marion Cotillard
Sandra
Fabrizio Rongione
Manu
Catherine Salée
Juliette
Pili Groyne
Estelle
Baptiste Sornin
Mr. Dumont
Simon Caudry
Maxime
Lara Persain
Willy's wife
Alain Eloy
Willy
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
R r96skVerified TMDB Critic
2020-07-07
Definitely good, though only thanks to Marion Cotillard's excellent performance.
The premise is intriguing and features some emotional scenes, there's one with Timur (Timur Magomedgadzhiev) that particularly hit me in the feels out of nowhere; it's not even the most gut-wrenching part of the film, yet it made me feel something the most.
The camera work et al. isn't all that great, the dialogue is especially underwhelming. Perhaps I was noticing it more due to viewing with subtitles, but there's a lot of moments where we see Sandra (Cotillard) retrace the same steps with each individual -...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2025-01-30
I really wasn't sure of the premiss at first here, but a strong effort from a Marion Cotillard-led cast of natural acting talent does actually bring it off well. We learn that there's been a sort of a referendum at her workplace where the boss has given them a choice. The staff can keep their €1,000 bonus or they can forgo that and "Sandra" gets to keep her job. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she's lost that ballot but when she discovers that one of her colleagues was briefing against her and doing some scaremongering, she manages to get "Dumont" (Baptiste Sornin) to agree to allow another vote. No...
