Sundance Selects has acquired domestic distribution rights to “Two Days, One Night,” Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s upcoming film starring Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard.

The Dardennes, Belgian brothers who have won two Palme d’Ors at the Cannes Film Festival, will write and direct the film, which is in pre-production.

Cotillard will star as a woman who spends two days and a night hunting for colleagues who will sacrifice bonuses so she can keep her job.

"After a terrific experience working with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on their last film, ‘The Kid with a Bike,...

You have to appreciate a film festival that would put a movie as strange as Alex van Warmerdam’s “Borgman” in main competition. Though it often feels as if the cast and director are making it up as they go along, it does have some memorable moments that are ultimately hard to shake.

“Borgman” aims to position itself as a kind of Occupy-ish revenge fantasy on the upper class. We first meet the title character (Jan Bijvoet) at his starting point, which is literally a hole he’s dug in the ground. But if you think that somehow is the key to everything, it isn’t. Perceptions are quickly formed and just as quickly dispelled about who Borgman and his wrecking crew really are.

They might even be dogs for all we know. Yes, dogs. (Coincidentally or not, the Dutch director also runs a theater group called the Mexican Hound.)

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Those of us who know Bob Dylan’s story well can point to his transformative influence on the folk music scene in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. What is remarkable is how Dylan shaped his own style from a unique amalgam of folk singers of the time, borrowing what he needed from Woody Guthrie and absorbing the best of the rest from everyone else. That didn’t explain his genius, nor does it explain his subsequent disgust with traditional folksinging – disgust that was manifested in his going electric, infusing his lyrics with rock-n-roll poetry, and refusing to be lumped in with the protest folkies of the time.

While none of that may seem to matter in Joel and Ethan Coen’s melancholy meditation on the time before Dylan changed everything, awareness of the schism that was brewing makes “Inside Llewyn Davis” all the more interesting. The...

Several thousand miles away from the South of France, the Seattle International Film Festival opened this week with Joss Whedon’s version of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” But on the Croisette, the motto might as well be “Much Ado About Everything.”

The opening night film was Baz Luhrmann’s ultra-extravagant “The Great Gatsby,” about a wealthy pretender who throws ridiculously lavish parties … and it was followed by yep, a ridiculously lavish party.

The Un Certain Regard sidebar, typically the province of small art movies, opened with another Hollywood movie about extravagance, Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring” … and attracted no less than Paris Hilton to its own afterparty.

Headlines talked about how $1.4 million in Chopard jewelry earmarked for the stars was stolen...