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 uMagdalena 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.详情
迈克尔·甘多菲尼,亚历桑德罗·尼沃拉,维拉·法米加,乔·博恩瑟,小莱斯利·奥多姆,寇瑞·斯托尔,比利·马格努森,约翰·马加罗,雷·利奥塔,达里尔·爱德华兹,尼克·瓦莱隆加,马提亚·孔福尔迪,德琼·瓦茨,法龙·索尔兹伯里,杰玛·特雷尔·加德纳,安德鲁·波尔克,肯·斯拉迪克,Sasha Morfaw,小戴维·M·桑多瓦尔,Audrey Bennett,伊恩·安特曼,小弗洛伊德·安东尼·约翰,克劳黛特·拉利,斯蒂芬妮·林恩·威尔逊,迈克尔·温·古查多,阿梅利亚·福勒,克里斯·勒潘塔,Edward Sass II