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Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On France’s ‘Two Of Us’

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A vibrant account of a long-term love affair between two aging women neighbors takes on teasing Fatal Attraction overtones in Two Of Us, the sharp-minded and shrewdly styled feature debut by French director and co-writer Filippo Meneghetti.

Meneghetti begins with a game of hide-and-seek between two girls, and it’s a charade the two leading characters, Nina and Madeleine, have been playing for years — curtaining off their carnal involvement from everyone, including immediate family, while conveniently living in adjacent apartments in the same building.

In even slightly earlier times, this would have been considered a discreetly civilized arrangement, respecting the old social proprieties while following their true natures in private.

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