Women drop off the cinematic landscape after a certain age. Once menopause hits, the roles revert to background or dowager or crazy person. They are, almost uniformly, sexless. Women only several years older than protagonists are cast as mothers and grandmothers. Suspension of disbelief is a misogynist construct when it comes to women in film.
Two of Us, the French entry for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, defies that construct. Filippo Meneghetti s first feature-length film, titled simply
Deux in French, is a deeply sensual tale of textured, long-standing love and desire between two women over decades.
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