TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER

DIRECTORS:  JACOB PERLMUTTER & MANON OUIMET


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ENGLISH

Business doc europe

‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ Review: CPH:DOX DOX:AWARD review: Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other. Mark Adams, March 16, 2024.

“A beautiful delve into life, love and the ups-and-downs of a long relationship are gently and thoughtfully examined in the wonderfully titled Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other.”

screen international

‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ Review: ‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’: CPH:DOX Review. Wendy Ide, March 18, 2024.

“a thoughtful, revealing and sometimes profoundly uncomfortable viewing experience — at times, it’s like eavesdropping on an unusually tetchy marriage counselling session. At others, the connection between these two fascinating people and the insights into their eventful, fully-lived lives is unexpectedly moving.”

cineuropa

‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ Review: CPH:DOX 2024 Review: ‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’. Vladan Petkovic, March 25, 2024.

“ [an] intimate and elegant documentary”

in review online

‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ Review: Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other — Jacob Permutter & Manon Ouimet [CPH:DOX ’24 Review]. Chris Cassingham, March 24, 2024.

“a triumph of documentary trust and access”

filmmaker magazine

‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ Review: Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2024: European Disunion. Steve Dollar, March 26, 2024.

“The film’s radiant visual warmth keys off of its (mostly) spirited and energetic subjects, yet also is a tip-off that filmmakers Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet are themselves award-winning photographers with a keen sense for blocking interiors and marshaling light. Working with Danish producer Signe Byrge Sørensen (a multiple Academy Award-nominee for The Act of Killing and Flee), the pair capture honeyed moments of intense intimacy and vulnerable introspection between the couple as well as cracking fault lines that sketch a far more complex and troubled portrait of long-term companionship”.

FRENCH

LE MONDE

‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ Review: A Copenhague, le festival du documentaire CPH:DOX ausculte l’inégalité des couples d’artistes. Maroussia Dubreuil, March 19, 2024.

“We witness the meticulous observation of a marriage filled with love but also resentment. It’s hard not to compare these moods to the couple in Anatomy of a Fall, by Justine Triet.

DANISH

FILMMAGASINET EKKO

★★★★★☆

‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ Review: Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other. Rasmus Brendstrup, March 22, 2024.

“en vidunderligt smuk film om livet.”