2015 · drama · romance · comedy
Two Friends
Directed by Louis Garrel1h 40m2015
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.
Our read: Two Friends (2015) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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