His affecting melodrama “Two Pianos,” which had its U.S. premiere last week at the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Film at Lincoln Center, carries bits of these American influences.
“My cinephilia mainly comes from America,” Desplechin told Variety while in New York for the movie premiere. “I belong to the generation of New Hollywood — the generation that discovered the films of Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma. I was passionately in love with American cinema.”
“Two Pianos,” which premiered at Toronto and San Sebastián, stars François Civil, Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Charlotte Rampling in a story of impossible love. Civil plays Mathias Vogler, a once-gifted pianist returning to France after years of self-imposed exile in Japan. Reunited with his mentor Elena (Rampling) for a series of concerts,…
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