Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s adaptation, set almost a century later in contemporary Paris, deploys Stein’s script as a talismanic guide through a contemporary moment of comparable social and political unrest. An original soundtrack, written especially for the film by British composer Laurence Crane, responds to the repetition, duplication and duality at play in Stein’s script. Both a fictional thriller and an act of collective representation, Deux Soeurs proposes empathy and friendship as means to reckon with an increasingly turbulent present.
Directing | Beatrice Gibson | Director |
Sound | Laurence Crane | Music |
Writing | Beatrice Gibson | Screenplay |
Sound | Chu Li Shewring | Sound |
Editing | Ben Crooks | Editor |
Editing | Beatrice Gibson | Editor |
Art | Oli Hogan | Production Design |
Art | Eli Serres | Production Design |
Camera | Ben Rivers | Director of Photography |
Sound | Nelson Cavaquinho | Music |