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Neighbors. Friends. Longtime secret lovers. A bond that cannot be undone: “TWO OF US”

An engaging film about aging and sapphic love
Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier and Léa Drucker
Directed by Filippo Meneghetti

    It is a story that resonates for many men and women all over the world. While society is changing, there is still prejudice in all societies against same-sex couples. In Filippo Meneghetti’s sensitive drama “Two of Us”, Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier portray an older lesbian couple who have a fiery sexual attraction and an enviable mutual devotion. Madeleine ... more >

CANNES DAY 3 – LA CHAMBRE BLEUE (THE BLUE ROOM)

Courtroom drama with a side of Resnais
Mathieu Amalric and Léa Drucker
Directed by Mathieu Amalric

“La Chambre Bleue” (“The Blue Room” in the original French), the extremely-talented actor Mathieu Amalric’s directorial debut, screened on Friday. Based on a slim 1955 novel by police procedural author Georges Simenon, it relates, or rather reveals, its story in a tortuously piecemeal fashion. In the course of an interrogation, we are introduced to Julien (Amalric), his mistress (Stéphanie Cléau) ... more >