“Two of Us,” the first narrative feature from director Filippo Meneghetti, is a love story between two older women played by Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa. It aims straight for the heartstrings but is foiled in this pursuit by plot implausibilities and an unwillingness to consider the motivations of the other characters in the story.
“Two of Us” opens with images of birds in flight, aggressive packs of them making threatening noises on the soundtrack. (This is a movie with an insistent and sometimes overbearing sound design.) We see two little girls at play, one of them counting as the other one goes to hide, and there is an effective air of menace about this sequence.
Madeleine (Chevallier) and Nina (Sukowa) live in apartments across the way from each other. When we first see them and their fond feelings for one another, they are shot in the darkness of night,...
“Two of Us” opens with images of birds in flight, aggressive packs of them making threatening noises on the soundtrack. (This is a movie with an insistent and sometimes overbearing sound design.) We see two little girls at play, one of them counting as the other one goes to hide, and there is an effective air of menace about this sequence.
Madeleine (Chevallier) and Nina (Sukowa) live in apartments across the way from each other. When we first see them and their fond feelings for one another, they are shot in the darkness of night,...
- 5/15/2021
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa in Filippo Meneghetti’s viscerally charged Two Of Us (Deux)
The honours keep coming for Filippo Meneghetti’s debut feature (France’s Oscar submission). Two Of Us (Deux), co-written with Malysone Bovorasmy and Florence Vignon, stars Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier (of the Comédie Française) with Léa Drucker, Jérôme Varanfrain, Muriel Bénazéraf, and Augustin Reynes. Sukowa and Chevallier are co-winners of the 2021 Best Actress Lumière Award and just received César nominations, as did Deux for Best First Film (with producers Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin and Laurent Baujard) and Best Original Screenplay (Meneghetti and Bovorasmy).
Meneghetti’s enigmatic Two of Us (Lumière Award-winner for Best First Film) has also received a Golden Globe nomination (Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language) and the film has made the 93rd Academy Awards Oscar Best International Film shortlist.
Barbara Sukowa on Two Of Us (Deux): “It’s so much about secrecy and looking.
The honours keep coming for Filippo Meneghetti’s debut feature (France’s Oscar submission). Two Of Us (Deux), co-written with Malysone Bovorasmy and Florence Vignon, stars Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier (of the Comédie Française) with Léa Drucker, Jérôme Varanfrain, Muriel Bénazéraf, and Augustin Reynes. Sukowa and Chevallier are co-winners of the 2021 Best Actress Lumière Award and just received César nominations, as did Deux for Best First Film (with producers Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin and Laurent Baujard) and Best Original Screenplay (Meneghetti and Bovorasmy).
Meneghetti’s enigmatic Two of Us (Lumière Award-winner for Best First Film) has also received a Golden Globe nomination (Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language) and the film has made the 93rd Academy Awards Oscar Best International Film shortlist.
Barbara Sukowa on Two Of Us (Deux): “It’s so much about secrecy and looking.
- 2/19/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When we’re young, it’s natural — even necessary — to imagine that we’ll eventually grow into ourselves. Someday. Today we’re new and unsure, but tomorrow we’ll be old and inhabit our skin with the confidence of someone who’s been sewn inside of it for a lifetime. We’ll have the wisdom to understand how we got there, the permission to do whatever our bodies will still let us, and the imperative not to lie about who we are. And yet, those pieces don’t just fall into place on their own; they aren’t automatically conferred upon people of a certain age like wrinkles or social security benefits or the unsolicited subscription to AARP Magazine that every American finds shoved into their mailbox one day like an appointment reminder from the Grim Reaper. On the contrary, such dividends are often earned through difficult choices — if not choices about who you are,...
- 2/5/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Two little girls playing hide-and-seek by the river fashion the unexplained mystery thread throughout Filippo Meneghetti’s enigmatic Two Of Us (Deux). There are horror and thriller elements accompanying the challenging performances by Martine Chevallier (of the Comédie Française) and Barbara Sukowa (co-winners of the 2021 Best Actress Lumière Award) to go with the terrific ensemble cast of Léa Drucker, Jérôme Varanfrain, Augustin Reynes, and Muriel Bénazéraf in the director’s compelling debut feature, co-written with Malysone Bovorasmy and Florence Vignon.
Nina (Sukowa) and Madeleine (Chevallier) go about their routines. They have two adjacent apartments and plan to move to Rome together. At night, our perspective resembles that of a spy who is watching from the other side of their shared bed. For Madeleine’s children Anne (Drucker) and Frédéric (Varanfrain), Nina...
Nina (Sukowa) and Madeleine (Chevallier) go about their routines. They have two adjacent apartments and plan to move to Rome together. At night, our perspective resembles that of a spy who is watching from the other side of their shared bed. For Madeleine’s children Anne (Drucker) and Frédéric (Varanfrain), Nina...
- 1/26/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"Look at me. Here I am." Magnolia Pictures has unveiled an official US trailer for Two of Us, a passionate love story drama by filmmaker Filippo Meneghetti. This is France's official submission to the Best Foreign Film selection in the Academy Awards this year, and it originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. It opens in the US in February just in time to play for Academy Award nominations. Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other's apartments. This stars Barbara Sukowa & Martine Chevallier as Nina & Madeleine, with Léa Drucker, Jérôme Varanfrain, Muriel Bénazéraf, Augustin Reynes, and Hervé Sogne. It definitely looks like an emotional, heart-wrenching film that seems to be an impressive work considering the critics' quotes they use in this trailer.
- 12/1/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.