Director of French Oscar Entry ‘Two of Us’ on Finding an Ending ‘Between Tragic and Happy’
TheWrap magazine: Filippo Meneghetti, whose film has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award, talks about the making of his tender gay romance
A version of this story about “Two of Us” first appeared in the International Film Issueย of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
In “Two of Us,” Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier star as two later-in-life women who have been a secret romantic couple for decades. The film portrays their domestic harmony, as they live in two different apartments on the same floor of a building in the south of France, with one unit simply a ruse. But after one of the women falls ill, the truth of their relationship slowly cracks open.
Director Filippo Meneghetti’s observant drama is France’s official selection for the Best International Feature Oscar.