Deux fois

Deux fois
Directed by	Jackie Raynal
Starring	Jackie Raynal Francisco Viader
Cinematography	André Weinfeld
Running time	63 min.
Country	France / Spain
Language	French

Deux fois is a 1968 experimental film by Jackie Raynal. Raynal stars in the film, her first as a director; she had previously worked for several years as a film editor, most notably for films in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series (she was, reportedly, the youngest professional editor in France at the time).^[1] The film's title, which literally translates as Twice and is sometimes translated into English as Twice Upon a Time, refers to the occasional repetition of scenes or actions.

Deux fois is one of the most notable^[2] of the Zanzibar Films, a group of feature-length experimental work made from 1968 to 1970 with the financing of Sylvina Boissonnas. It is also considered a landmark of Feminist filmmaking.^[2] Raynal shot the film in nine days in Barcelona, Spain^[1], casting a man she had met there, Francisco Viader, as one of the leads.

Regarding the film, the influential French critic Serge Daney wrote: "She put in her film the visionary crazed coldness of major paranoiacs. We also find the murderous, painful madness of Fritz Lang's great films, in which all the fiction is reduced to sketchy outlines, arabesques, leaving almost no trace."^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Cinematheque Ontario: Deux Fois
2. ^ ^{a b} Harvard Film Archive: Zanzibar Films and the Dandies of May 1968