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January 9, 2015

At the Movies: 'Two Days, One Night' a moving social drama

By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer

“Put yourself in my place.” It's a line heard a number of times in “Two Days, One Night,” the exquisitely simple and moving new film from Belgium's Dardenne brothers.

It's central to the story, but doesn't the line also encapsulate what cinema is supposed to accomplish, essentially? Forcing us to put ourselves in the place of those onscreen and to wonder, often with discomfort: What would I do?


 
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