Athens International Film Festival
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Two Friends / Les Deux Amis

28/9/2015, 21:45, Δαναός 1

Two 30something friends, one girl and a sizzling love triangle. In his film debut, French actor Louis Garrel, takes the lovely Golshifteh Farahani and Vincent Macaigne on a walk down nouvelle vague lane. In competition at Critic's Week in Cannes.

Actor Louis Garrel directorial debut, fresh off the Critic’s Week at this year’s Cannes, is a cross-section between Judd Appatow and nouvelle vague. Mona (Golshifteh Farahani) is a young prison inmate who checks out every morning to work at Gare du Nord, the famous train station in Paris. She has developed a close relationship with Vincent who works as a film extra, but when she decides to put some distance between them, he turns to his best friend Abel (Louis Garrel himself) for help. What starts out as a clash between three very different people, develops into a strange triangle, with Mona escorting them as a background artist on a film that takes place in 1968 Paris. Eventually she starts having feelings for Abel, which Vincent takes really badly, triggering a chain of incredible romantic vignettes, featuring the unexpected trio.


Les Deux Amis - trailer from NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Louis Garrel
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Louis Garrel, Christophe Honoré
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Claire Mathon
Μουσική / Music
Philippe Sarde
Μοντάζ / Editor
Joëlle Hache
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Golshifteh Farahani, Vincent Macaigne
Louis Garrel

Γαλλία / France
2015
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
100'
Γαλλικά / French



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