Just the Two of Us

L’amour et les forêts
Valérie Donzelli
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024

February 29 - March 10, 2024

A marriage that seemed to offer a bright new beginning soon takes on a sinister dimension in writer-director Valérie Donzelli’s tensely effective erotic thriller, featuring a virtuosic Virginie Efira in a double role as twin sisters Rose and Blanche.

DIRECTOR
Valérie Donzelli
YEAR
2023
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
105 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
L’amour et les forêts

The sixth feature from writer-director Valérie Donzelli (also an accomplished actress in her own right), co-written with the filmmaker Audrey Diwan (Happening), features a virtuosic Virginie Efira (star of this year’s Rendez-Vous selection All to Play For) in a double role as twin sisters Rose and Blanche. After Blanche falls for Grégoire (Melvil Poupaud) at a party, the two quickly marry and relocate far away from her beloved sibling. But, as an opening scene of Rose telling her story in a lawyer’s office suggests, a sinister dimension to Grégoire quickly emerges, and a marriage that seemed to offer a bright new beginning soon takes on the appearance of something more like a trap. Donzelli’s César-nominated film is a tensely effective erotic thriller that doubles as an acute psychological study of a profoundly disturbing relationship. A Music Box Films release.

Just the Two of Us
Just the Two of Us
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