简介: Magdalena and Maria are two twin sisters who were separated at birth and know nothing of the other’s existence. Maria runs away from the boarding school in which she was brought up and finds work as a cabaret performer in the cafés of Marseilles. Magdalena lives with her adopted parents and works in an art gallery. The two sisters are joined by an invisible bond which draws them towards the same tragic conclusion. Director Werner Schroeter has acquired a reputation as an experimentalist filmmaker, hailed by some as an underrated genius, reviled by others for being a peddler of self-indulgent kitsch. Deux is arguably Schroeter’s most ambitious, unsettling and repulsive work to date. The director certainly wastes no time in alienating his audience; from the first ten minutes of the film it is clear this is not going to be an easy ride. The narrative cuts haphazardly between seemingly unconnected events, alternating between realism and stylised fantasy dream sequences, periodically shocking the spectator with graphic images of lesbian sex and a woman being slowly disembowelled. Having several actors playing multiple parts only adds to the sense of artifice and utter confusion, which is a pity as there is manifestly a lot of great acting talent on show – not least of which is Isabelle Huppert. The film’s sheer relentless grotesqueness and self-indulgence is so extreme, so unbridled, so stomach-churningly provocative, that it is hard to take any of it seriously.
塞西尔·德·弗朗斯,木村拓哉,亚历山大·卡里姆,莉奥妮·贝尼希,凯丽·考贝特,莎伦·邓肯-布鲁斯特,杰克·格林利斯,平岳大,克里斯塔·科索恩,芭芭拉·苏科瓦,莉迪亚·威尔逊,克拉斯·霍佛-乌姆劳夫,埃迪恩·杰拉里,奥利弗·马苏奇,克拉迪亚·朱尔特,雅各波·奥尔莫·安蒂诺里,Rosabell Laurenti Sellers,Joshua Odjick,Dutch Johnson