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Society has different expectations for men and women, due in large part to millennia of patriarchal systems where women were typically responsible for staying home to take care of the children. In a modern world, mothers can work after giving birth and function similarly to men, but there are still maternal connections that they\u2019ll make and will occupy their time, like breastfeeding, that just can\u2019t apply the same way to men even in the most equitable of relationships. <\/span>Two Women<\/i><\/b> takes a humorous look at this concept in its spotlight of two female neighbors who realize that their male partners are no longer sexually interested in them and take matters into their own hands to satisfy themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Violette (Laurence Leboeuf) is hearing a noise from her bedroom wall that sounds like a crow, but she thinks it\u2019s actually her neighbor having sex. Florence (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman) insists this can\u2019t be true since she and her partner David (Mani Soleymanlou) haven\u2019t had sex in at least a year, and he\u2019s even started taking her antidepressants after she stops so that he won\u2019t have any sex drive. Violette is at home taking care of her newborn baby while her husband Benoit (F\u00e9lix Moati) travels constantly for work, though, unbeknownst to her, much of that time is spent sleeping with his coworker \u00c9li (Juliette Gari\u00e9py). A visit by a cable technician to Florence\u2019s home soon turns into both women calling up for real and inverted problems so that they can find men who actually want them and have a chance to relieve some much-needed pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an extremely entertaining film from start to finish. We don\u2019t get to see much of these two women outside of their homes, but it\u2019s great fun to watch as they travel down similar paths, only revealing pieces of what they\u2019re doing to each other. The nature of how they clue their visiting contractors in to what they want is always funny, and the excitement and release seen on their faces as they engage with their newest unsuspecting sexual partner is always very potently felt. The men are incredibly clueless but also get their own subplots, like another neighbor (Sophie N\u00e9lisse) who only supports David\u2019s plans for their community because she has an obvious crush on him, and Benoit learning multiple pieces of important news about his wife from \u00c9li, who apparently visits her public Facebook page much more than he does.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

This film, from director Chlo\u00e9 Robichaud and screenwriter Catherine L\u00e9ger, a remake of Claude Fournier\u2019s 1970 film <\/span>Two Women in Gold<\/i><\/b> and will understandably be subject to comparisons. But this film stands on its own as an impressively timeless entry that does include cell phones and other modernities but whose events don\u2019t revolve around technology. These women could feel this way and these men could be just as useless in any era, and the film uses a muted color palette that matches the way these women aren\u2019t able to put themselves first and then finally start doing it. It\u2019s also not a film that\u2019s based around twists or the perilous nature of secret affairs, instead more focused on how partners often fail to communicate and don\u2019t even realize how much of a problem there until it\u2019s too late to easily remedy it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This film boasts wonderful performance all around, with the men poking fun at themselves in a way that doesn\u2019t feel overly demeaning, showing that they could be capable of goodness if only they put in the tiniest amount of effort. Gari\u00e9py puts a clever twist on the \u201cother woman\u201d as \u00c9li constantly brings up Violette to Benoit, far more in tune with her than her own husband is. Leboeuf and Gonthier-Hyndman are both fantastic, ensuring that their characters are different enough but still warmly entertaining and not too over-the-top to represent what many who have never had the chance to properly express themselves might dream of but likely not actually act on in this film, which is a very memorable delight.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grade: B+<\/b><\/p>\n

Check out more of Abe Friedtanzer\u2019s articles<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two Women <\/i><\/b>makes its world premiere in the <\/b>World Cinema Dramatic Competition<\/b><\/a> at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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