Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa in TWO OF US, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
“Two of Us” (“Deux”) is the feature film debut of director Filippo Meneghetti. Sharing screenplay credit with Malysone Bovorasmy, Meneghetti has given us a movie of incredible depth, warmth, and insight. It is a gift, carefully encased in layers, unwrapped lovingly from the colored paper on the outside to the fragile tissue around the reward.
Nina and Madeleine, affectionately known as Mado, are, to the outside world, neighbors and good friends. Women in their twilight years, they are inseparable and as close as their adjacent apartments. But closeness is a euphemism for what they are. They are lovers, in some ways clandestine and in others overt. Each night, Nina slips into Mado’s bed and they drift into the comfort they have experienced together for…
