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.
Genre: Crime
Stars: Adam Christensen, Basma Alsharif, Ana Vaz, Maria Palacios Cruz, Alice Notley, Diocouda Diaoune
Crew: Beatrice Gibson (Director), Laurence Crane (Music), Beatrice Gibson (Screenplay), Ben Rivers (Director of Photography), Chu Li Shewring (Sound), Oli Hogan (Production Design)
Country: France, United Kingdom
Language: English, Français
Studio: Somesuch
Runtime: 20 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 18, 2019
IMDb: 10
Keywords:short film
