A vibrant account of a long-term love affair between two aging women neighbors takes on teasing Fatal Attraction overtones in Two Of Us, the sharp-minded and shrewdly styled feature debut by French director and co-writer Filippo Meneghetti.
First screened at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and this year’s submission from France to the International Feature Film Oscar race, this insinuating drama can be said to offer something novel to the screen: an amour fou partly set in a nursing home. The unusual mix of a quasi-Hitchcockian approach with modern sexual politics marks Deux, as it is known in its home territories, as a potential sleeper not only with art house denizens but with stuck-at-home viewers up for a taste of something different. Magnolia has set a February 5 domestic release, in theaters where possible and on all PVOD digital platforms.
Meneghetti begins with a game of hide-and-seek between two girls, and...
First screened at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and this year’s submission from France to the International Feature Film Oscar race, this insinuating drama can be said to offer something novel to the screen: an amour fou partly set in a nursing home. The unusual mix of a quasi-Hitchcockian approach with modern sexual politics marks Deux, as it is known in its home territories, as a potential sleeper not only with art house denizens but with stuck-at-home viewers up for a taste of something different. Magnolia has set a February 5 domestic release, in theaters where possible and on all PVOD digital platforms.
Meneghetti begins with a game of hide-and-seek between two girls, and...
- 1/11/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
After nine installments of twists, turns, ups, downs, shocks and thrills that had those around me shooting me strange looks because they heard me gasping at my screen, it's finally time to for Absentia Season 1 Episode 10!
Oh, what a ride it's been.
It would be difficult to hyperbolize Stana Katic's stunning performance as Emily Byrne.
Katic carries this series and somehow manages to humanize Emily's relentless persistence and strength by balancing it with a unique vulnerability that makes us care for Emily without ever making her appear weak.
Even when the evidence was stacking up against her and she took action I didn't always agree with, like kidnapping Adam Radford, I still couldn't help but root for Emily Byrne.
That continued through to the end of the Absentia season 1 finale.
Of course, that's not to say that there weren't some subtle flaws in the story, such as, how would...
Oh, what a ride it's been.
It would be difficult to hyperbolize Stana Katic's stunning performance as Emily Byrne.
Katic carries this series and somehow manages to humanize Emily's relentless persistence and strength by balancing it with a unique vulnerability that makes us care for Emily without ever making her appear weak.
Even when the evidence was stacking up against her and she took action I didn't always agree with, like kidnapping Adam Radford, I still couldn't help but root for Emily Byrne.
That continued through to the end of the Absentia season 1 finale.
Of course, that's not to say that there weren't some subtle flaws in the story, such as, how would...
- 2/6/2018
- by Christine Orlando
- TVfanatic
Emily Byrne was physically and emotionally exhausted on Absentia Season 1 Episode 9 and it was easy to understand why.
Because I'm exhausted just watching her go through all of this.
When Emily shot Nick at the end of Absentia Season 1 Episode 8, I had completely forgotten that Nick normally wears a bullet proof vest.
I didn't realize that wearing a vest in the field was standard protocol for FBI agents, but that's something that Emily would have known, so she shot Nick where it would slow him down but not kill him.
Detective Gibbs seemed to understand that far better than Nick did. Nick wouldn't cut Emily any slack.
Nick was determined to believe the worst of Emily, that the only reason she didn't kill him was because then Gibbs wouldn't have had to stop to make sure he was okay. In Nick's mind, Emily didn't kill him only because keeping him alive benefited her.
Because I'm exhausted just watching her go through all of this.
When Emily shot Nick at the end of Absentia Season 1 Episode 8, I had completely forgotten that Nick normally wears a bullet proof vest.
I didn't realize that wearing a vest in the field was standard protocol for FBI agents, but that's something that Emily would have known, so she shot Nick where it would slow him down but not kill him.
Detective Gibbs seemed to understand that far better than Nick did. Nick wouldn't cut Emily any slack.
Nick was determined to believe the worst of Emily, that the only reason she didn't kill him was because then Gibbs wouldn't have had to stop to make sure he was okay. In Nick's mind, Emily didn't kill him only because keeping him alive benefited her.
- 2/5/2018
- by Christine Orlando
- TVfanatic
Holy heck! After Absentia Season 1 Episode 8 I'm left thinking that this series may be one of the most intense thrillers I've ever seen on the small screen.
Because now it's not just Emily's life on the line, but Flynn and Alice's too.
And Nick's life as well, I suppose, depending where that gun shot hit him.
I was a little surprised at Maura's vehemence that Emily was behind the abduction, but then again, all that Maura knows about Emily comes from Alice, and Alice certainly hasn't been Emily's biggest fan.
I get Maura believing the worst, but it was Nick falling down that same rabbit hole that was disturbing.
He was married to Emily. They had a child together. He once told her that he trusted her because he knew her.
But know he believes she's a serial killer who kidnaped her own child and his step-mother.
I realize that Nick is desperate.
Because now it's not just Emily's life on the line, but Flynn and Alice's too.
And Nick's life as well, I suppose, depending where that gun shot hit him.
I was a little surprised at Maura's vehemence that Emily was behind the abduction, but then again, all that Maura knows about Emily comes from Alice, and Alice certainly hasn't been Emily's biggest fan.
I get Maura believing the worst, but it was Nick falling down that same rabbit hole that was disturbing.
He was married to Emily. They had a child together. He once told her that he trusted her because he knew her.
But know he believes she's a serial killer who kidnaped her own child and his step-mother.
I realize that Nick is desperate.
- 2/5/2018
- by Christine Orlando
- TVfanatic
Mrs. Géquil is a delicate woman, at least in the eyes of her patronizing husband (played by José Garcia) as well as, perhaps, in the eyes of her boss and the vast majority of the students in her class. However, if the Robert Louis Stevenson reference in the title hasn’t led you to this conclusion already, then perhaps the casting of Isabelle Huppert in the lead role just might: she will not be referred to as delicate for very long. Mrs. Hyde, a socially bellicose, darkly humorous farce with aesthetic and spiritual echoes of both giallo horror and recent Kaurismäki, is the latest work of film critic-turned-actor-turned-director Serge Bozon. He’s a filmmaker who has, in the past, used similarly absurdist tropes — although never through such a playfully pseudo-supernatural façade — to talk about issues of class and gender politics in contemporary France, evidenced in Tip Top (also with Huppert) and La France.
- 8/7/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
The 9th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival may just run for a mere five days in Switzerland on Oct. 20-24, but it hits with the force of a 10p-ton megaton bomb over that time period, packing in so much mind-boggling underground madness it’ll make your head explode.
Every year, the fest feels like 5 or 6 festivals crammed into one. There’s the fest that pays homage to the history of experimental filmmaking, there are the retrospectives of several cult festivals, a feature film competition section, a short film competition section and more.
Three filmmakers are especially getting major retrospective love this year. First, there’s legendary Canadian experimental filmmaker Michael Snow who will be in attendance at screenings of his classic films Wavelength, <–> and La région centrale, plus several of his other short films.
Also being feted are German extreme horror filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit, who will attend screenings of his classic Nekromantik,...
Every year, the fest feels like 5 or 6 festivals crammed into one. There’s the fest that pays homage to the history of experimental filmmaking, there are the retrospectives of several cult festivals, a feature film competition section, a short film competition section and more.
Three filmmakers are especially getting major retrospective love this year. First, there’s legendary Canadian experimental filmmaker Michael Snow who will be in attendance at screenings of his classic films Wavelength, <–> and La région centrale, plus several of his other short films.
Also being feted are German extreme horror filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit, who will attend screenings of his classic Nekromantik,...
- 10/18/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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