Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

Overview

Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s adaptation, set almost a century later in contemporary Paris, deploys Stein’s script as a talismanic guide through a contemporary moment of comparable social and political unrest. An original soundtrack, written especially for the film by British composer Laurence Crane, responds to the repetition, duplication and duality at play in Stein’s script. Both a fictional thriller and an act of collective representation, Deux Soeurs proposes empathy and friendship as means to reckon with an increasingly turbulent present.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 18, 2019

Original language

French

Spoken languages

english, french

Countries

France, United Kingdom

Production

Somesuch

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded