Credit: Tarantula Luxembourg
The César Awards unveiled today the nominations for the 46th edition of France's top film award; the film "Deux" (Two of Us) will represent Luxembourg.
The awards ceremony will be held on Friday 12 March 2021 at 21:00 at the Olympia in Paris. It will be broadcast live and unencrypted on Canal+ and visible in replay on MyCanal. The higlights of the evening will be broadcast in parallel on the Dailymotion site.
"Two of Us", directed by Filippo Meneghetti and co-produced in Luxembourg by the company Tarantula (Donato Rotunno and Elise André), is competing in the following four categories:
- Best First Feature Film
- Best Actress - Martine Chevalier
- Best Actress - Barbara Sukowa
- Best Original Screenplay
The comedy-drama had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and won dozens of international awards including the Best First Feature Award and the Best Actress Award for Martine Chevalier and Barbara Sukowa, the film's two lead actresses, at this year's Lumières de la presse internationale.
The film, which is a lesbian romance story, is also selected to represent France at the 2021 Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Filming in Luxembourg took place in mid-October 2018 for 20 days. Several Luxembourgish technicians were involved in the film, including find Céline Bodson (sound operator), Angelo Dos Santos (sound editor), Vitalijus Kiselius (electrician), Magdalena Labuz (costumes), Katja Reinert (head of make-up), Laurent Wallerang (chief machinist), as well as the actors Eugénie Anselin, Aude-Laurence Biver, Véronique Fauconnet, Denis Jousselin, Stéphane Robles, Gilles Soeder, Hervé Sogne and Jérôme Varanfrain.
Tarantula Distribution has decided to re-release the film this week in cinemas across the Grand Duchy. It is also available on the new Luxembourg streaming platform sooner.lu.
