Two Can Play (1993)

Original title

Deux actrices

Directed by

Micheline Lanctôt

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two sisters meet for the first time as adults and try to build a relationship. The movie mixes their dramatic story with interviews where the actors talk about how they created their roles.

quietintrospectivemelancholicencounter-drivenreflectivecharacter-focusedslow-pacedemotional

What happens

Two Can Play (French: Deux actrices) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Micheline Lanctôt and released in 1993. The film stars Pascale Bussières and Pascale Paroissien as adult sisters meeting for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence, and intersperses the dramatic storyline with scenes in which the actresses are interviewed about the process of building their characters. The film won the L.E. Ouimet-Molson Prize from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1994, and Lanctôt was a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 15th Genie Awards. In 2023, Telefilm Canada announced that the film was one of 23 titles that will be digitally restored under its new Canadian Cinema Reignited program to preserve classic Canadian films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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