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‘Two Women’ Review: From Quebec Comes a Cringy Remake of a 1970 Sex Romp
'Sara Prefers to Run' director Chloé Robichaud turns to a questionable classic for a not-particularly-funny comedic look at female desire.
Now, helmer Chloé Robichaud(“Sara Prefers to Run”) enters the Sundance World Dramatic competition with “ Two Women,” a cringy, unconvincing remake of a cult 1970 Québec sex romp, “Deux femmes en or.” Screenwriter-producer Catherine Léger earlier adapted the material into a successful stageplay, but the theater version seems to have included some bracing irony, a quality sorely missing from this earnest, naturalistic misfire. After Florence explains that monogamy was invented for men, the stage is set for a string of hired workers who get an unexpected bonus when the women seduce them in crude, non-funny scenes with a high cringe factor.
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