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Deux (2002)
DIRECTOR: Werner Schroëter
CAST: Bulle Ogier; Manuel Blanc; Arielle Dombasle
SYNOPSIS
Magdalena and Maria are twin sisters who don't
know each other, because they were separated since born. Maria grew up in a
girl's boarding school. She run away and became a signer in cafes and night
clubs in Marseille. Magdalena lives with her adopted parents. She works in
a art gallery in Marais and is passionated for doing various
things.
Anna, their mother from Portugal, immigrated
to Arles, had many short-term relationships. She abandoned them three months
after they were born. she left them an only trance of her: a post card of chateau
of Sintra sent from Portugal once a while....
NOTE
Isabelle plays
twin sisters, from 14-year old to 30s. - FORUM
QUOTE
Werner Schroeter
production note
Maybe Isabelle Huppert is a synthesis of Magdalena Montezma and Carole Bouquet
in one person. In my early works, I started to work with comic actress,
dramatic woman, and woman with character.... all resembled Isabelle Huppert.
For me the sysnthesis is really Isabelle, because she has a exactly sensible
quality.
I rarely used music during the shooting. In the
scene where Isabelle cried on the bed with her lover, I played "The Death
of the Soldier" sung by Maria Callas and as Isabelle Huppert detestd this
musical piece, it's more eaier to let her cry.
Werner Schroeter
"Werner Schroeter, La Fatalite du
Glamour" by Jean Francois Rauger
Le Monde, November 18, 2002
I love her (Isabelle) a lot. She understands all. She is the only one whom
I want to work instinctly.
Isabelle Huppert
News Conference at Director's
Fortnight
Cannes, May 19, 2002
It's a biographcial film of the director. I'm his messenger.
Isabelle Huppert
Interviewd
by public.pt
Cinecartaz, Jan, 2003, Lisbon
The film was written for me, but also for him. He projects in me. But it is
a transfusion case, as if he came to inhabit in me, it's my heart, but his
soul. I state his ghosts. He assumes that it is a film on him, that speaks
of his past, of his infancy. But as he is a visionary who escapes to all the
classifications, leaves his imaginary one to vagabundear. It is his unconsciousness in which he speaks. This film is as a dream. In a dream, we project ourselves
in improbable situations, but that, at the same time, they have a linking with
the world to our return. Therefore, a dream never is perhaps.
AWARD
- Selected
by Direcotr's
Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival, May 18, 2002
- Taormina Film Festival, July 8, 2002
- Rotterdam Film Festival, February, 2003
TRIVIA
The director
Werner Schroeter is a good friend of Isabelle since long time. They worked together
in "Malina" in
1991, and a documentary on the opera divas "Love's
Debris" (1996)
REVIEW
Avec
vue sur la mère, le 17 april, 2002
Deux:
the Experiments, Le Monde, May
20, 2002
Les beautes multiples "Deux", Liberation, le 22 mai, 2002
Deux:
Double and Trouble, Liberation, 13 nov. 2002
Tu t'installes chez moi, en moi, Liberation, 13 nov. 2002
Une idee de la feminite... Le
Monde, 13 Nov. 2002
Schoreter: Huppert a la jumelle, Le Figaro, 14 nov. 2002
Werner Scrhoeter, la fatalite
du glamous, Le monde, 18 nov. 2002
Bouts
d'essais, November 12, 2002
"2" + "4.48",
Cinecartaz, Jan, 2003
Deux Review, Cinemah.com, April 22, 2003
Deux by
Acquarelle, at Strictly Film School, 20 Feb. 2005 (en)
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