Acclaimed French director Arnaud Desplechin returns with his latest feature effort, “Two Pianos,” as the new French-language drama heads to U.S. theaters in the near future, and a trailer has made its way to us to share.
The script was co-written by Desplechin and Kamen Velkovsky, as the upcoming film explores a professional pianist returning home to France after teaching in Japan, and reconnecting with his former teacher when he’s set to duet with her for some of her final live performances.
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François Civil, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Charlotte Rampling, Hippolyte Girardot, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Anne Kessler, Jérémy Lewin, Marianne Pommier, and Valentin Picard are among the main cast of the film that had debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year before hitting French theaters in October.
A synopsis for the upcoming drama courtesy of Kino Lorber:
Pianist Mathias (François Civil) returns home to Lyon after years away teaching and performing in Japan. He’s been summoned back to duet with his former teacher Elena (Charlotte Rampling) during her final concerts—a re-encounter with a demanding mentor that proves less daunting than Mathias’s experience of running into a charismatic but erratic ex, Claude (Nadia Tereszkiewicz). One of France’s biggest rising stars, Civil (who studied rigorously to perform Bach on-screen himself) is a worthy partner for the legendary, typically commanding Rampling. Psychologically charged homecomings and the unexpected reunions they can bring about—romantically charged and otherwise—are a recurring through line in the films of Arnaud Desplechin (“Brother and Sister,” “Rendez-Vous 2023”), thematic fodder that he revisits in typically boisterous form against the backdrop of a city he’s never filmed before.
Rampling is also expected to reprise the role of The Reverend Mother (Gaius Helen Mohiam) in Denis Villeneuve‘s “Dune: Part Three” this December, although the scale of her role in the filmmaker’s final outing in the sci-fi fantasy franchise remains to be seen.
You can check out that new trailer for “Two Pianos” below, as the French drama heads to theaters on May 1.
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