{"id":2326277,"date":"2026-03-13T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2326277"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:20:36","slug":"french-director-arnaud-desplechin-talks-two-pianos-new-hollywood-influences-and-his-next-english-language-film-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/french-director-arnaud-desplechin-talks-two-pianos-new-hollywood-influences-and-his-next-english-language-film-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"French Director Arnaud Desplechin Talks \u2018Two Pianos,\u2019 New Hollywood Influences and His Next English-Language Film (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0221611\/\">Arnaud Desplechin<\/a> may be regarded as one of France\u2019s quintessential auteurs, but American cinema has long been a guiding force in his imagination.<\/p>\n<p>His affecting melodrama \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33518607\/\">Two Pianos<\/a>,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cinephilia mainly comes from America,\u201d Desplechin told Variety while in New York for the movie premiere. \u201cI belong to the generation of New Hollywood \u2014 the generation that discovered the films of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000217\/\">Martin Scorsese<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000361\/\">Brian De Palma<\/a>. I was passionately in love with American cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33518607\/\">Two Pianos<\/a>,\u201d which premiered at Toronto and San Sebasti\u00e1n, stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2476624\/\">Fran\u00e7ois Civil<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8066528\/\">Nadia Tereszkiewicz<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001648\/\">Charlotte Rampling<\/a> in a story of impossible love. Civil plays <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3055009\/\">Mathias Vogler<\/a>, 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,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnaud Desplechin may be regarded as one of France\u2019s quintessential auteurs, but American cinema has long been a guiding force in his imagination. His affecting melodrama \u201cTwo Pianos,\u201d 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. \u201cMy cinephilia mainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2326277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/French-Director-Arnaud-Desplechin-Talks-\u2018Two-Pianos-New-Hollywood-Influences.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326279,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326277\/revisions\/2326279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}