Deux
Filippo Meneghetti
Pensioners Nina and Madeleine are deeply in love with each other. To everyone's eyes, they are just simple neighbours living on the top floor of their building. Every day they come and go between their two apartments and share their lives together. No one really knows them, not even Anne, Madeleine's caring daughter. Until the day when a tragic event turns everything upside down....
With : Barbara Sukowa, Léa Drucker, Martine Chevallier de La Comédie-Française
Screenplay : Filippo Meneghetti, Malysone Bovorasmy en collaboration avec Florence Vignon
Image : Aurélien Marra
Editing : Ronan Tronchot
Sound : Céline Bodson
Music originale : Michele Menini
Screenplay : Filippo Meneghetti, Malysone Bovorasmy en collaboration avec Florence Vignon
Image : Aurélien Marra
Editing : Ronan Tronchot
Sound : Céline Bodson
Music originale : Michele Menini
Production : Paprika Films, Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, Laurent Baujard, Tarantula, Artemis Productions, Voo & Be Tv, Shelter Prod
Distribution: Sophie Dulac
International sales: Doc & Film International
Distribution: Sophie Dulac
International sales: Doc & Film International
Originally from Padua, Italy, Filippo Meneghetti had his first experience working in the New York independent circuit. After studying cinema and then anthropology in Rome, he collaborated on the writing of the feature film Imago Mortis (2009). At the same time, he worked as an assistant director for several years. He then moved on to directing with the short films Undici (co-directed with Piero Tomaselli, 2011) and L'intruso (2012), which won awards at numerous festivals, including the Public Prize at Premiers Plans in 2013. He moved to France in 2018 where he directed the short film La Bête. Deux (Two of Us) is his first feature film. The script was developed at the Ateliers d'Angers in 2017 and received the VISIO Foundation Prize during the script readings in 2018.
“The characters in Deux (Two of Us) could have been a man and a woman. But I'm more interested anything that diverges from the norm. I think it is first and foremost a film about other people's perceptions. And on self-censorship, which is an invisible, but very violent form of censorship. The way we see ourselves is fuelled by the way that our loved ones and society see us. And we end up internalizing it. And that is what Deux talks about first and foremost. The film raises issues everyone can identify with, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual. How do you accept yourself, bear with yourself?” (Filippo Meneghetti)
“The characters in Deux (Two of Us) could have been a man and a woman. But I'm more interested anything that diverges from the norm. I think it is first and foremost a film about other people's perceptions. And on self-censorship, which is an invisible, but very violent form of censorship. The way we see ourselves is fuelled by the way that our loved ones and society see us. And we end up internalizing it. And that is what Deux talks about first and foremost. The film raises issues everyone can identify with, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual. How do you accept yourself, bear with yourself?” (Filippo Meneghetti)