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Arnaud Desplechin is one of the most acclaimed directors in world cinema, whose new film, <a href="https://kinolorber.com/film/two-pianos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Two Pianos</a>, starring François Civil and Charlotte Rampling, is in theaters through Kino Lorber from May 1. He became the cen­tral fig­ure of young French cin­e­ma thanks to sev­er­al of his early films, includ­ing My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argu­ment (1996) and Esther Kahn (2000). In 2004, Desplechin com­plet­ed Kings &amp; Queen with Emmanuel Devos and Math­ieu Amal­ric, both a crit­i­cal and com­mer­cial hit, with Math­ieu Amal­ric notably win­ning the César for Best Actor. In 2008, he cast Cather­ine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Rous­sil­lon in his dra­mat­ic com­e­dy A Christ­mas Tale and in 2013 went to the Unit­ed States to shoot Jim­my P.: Psy­chother­a­py of a Plains Indi­an, reunit­ing with his favorite actor Math­ieu Amal­ric, along­side Beni­cio del Toro. In 2016, he won the César for Best Direc­tor for My Gold­en Days. Desplechin went on to stage a suc­cess­ful pro­duc­tion of August Strindberg’s The Father at the Comédie-Française, fol­lowed by Tony Kushner’s Angels in Amer­i­ca. (Photo by Marie Rouge / Unifrance.)

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