安尼卡·库尔

建筑设计师托马斯在妻子安雅的庆生宴过后发现妻子失踪，报警之后却被当成头号嫌疑人。他找到著名律师拉维妮娅请求帮助。此时，一名自称为安雅好友的女人康妮主动告知警方庆生宴当日托马斯与安雅爆发争吵，且托马斯疑似出轨。焦头烂额的托马斯找到拉维妮娅诉说心事，原来他们曾是恋人。警方根据现有证据逮捕了托马斯，然而在法庭上这些不充分的证据被辩护律师拉维妮娅一一反驳，托马斯有望无罪释放。而托马斯的一番问话，令拉维妮娅顿时不安。拉维妮娅回家后仔细翻看材料，惊讶地发现康妮才是托马斯的情人，而她提供的证词也不过是为了混淆视听，一切都是她和托马斯在钻“一案不再审原则”的空子：只要托马斯此次无罪释放，就算日后再找到安雅的尸体他也不会再被起诉。在最终判决前，拉维妮娅将自己的发现告知法官，托马斯被判无期徒刑，警方开始调查康妮。托马斯经常跑步锻炼的那条林间小径边上，似乎就是安雅的葬身之处。

Magdalena and Maria are two twin sisters who were separated at birth and know nothing of the other’s existence.  Maria runs away from the boarding school in which she was brought up and finds work as a cabaret performer in the cafés of Marseilles.  Magdalena lives with her adopted parents and works in an art gallery.  The two sisters are joined by an invisible bond which draws them towards the same tragic conclusion.　　Director Werner Schroeter has acquired a reputation as an experimentalist filmmaker, hailed by some as an underrated genius, reviled by others for being a peddler of self-indulgent kitsch.  Deux is arguably Schroeter’s most ambitious, unsettling and repulsive work to date.  The director certainly wastes no time in alienating his audience; from the first ten minutes of the film it is clear this is not going to be an easy ride.  The narrative cuts haphazardly between seemingly unconnected events, alternating between realism and stylised fantasy dream sequences, periodically shocking the spectator with graphic images of lesbian sex and a woman being slowly disembowelled.  Having several actors playing multiple parts only adds to the sense of artifice and utter confusion, which is a pity as there is manifestly a lot of great acting talent on show – not least of which is Isabelle Huppert.  The film’s sheer relentless grotesqueness and self-indulgence is so extreme, so unbridled, so stomach-churningly provocative, that it is hard to take any of it seriously.