Interview With "Two Pianos" Filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"Two Pianos" (or in French, "Deux pianos") is a 2025 French romantic drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin, starring François Civil as a virtuoso French pianist who returns from Asia to experience an impossible love story in his hometown of Lyon. The cast also includes Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Charlotte Rampling, and Hippolyte Girardot. The film had its world premiere in the Gala Presentations section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and received positive reviews. Desplechin was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Kino Lorber. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	You were listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is Dan Bear's interview with the director and writer for two pianos.
0:36.9	Arnag Deleltaschene.
0:38.6	There's still how many time in the area?
0:40.1	One hour, a pain.
0:44.2	What's what you're going to do?
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0:52.6	You're all alone.
1:04.0	Welcome everyone to the next best picture podcast where we are talking with Arnaud de Plechine, the writer and director of two pianos. Arnaud, thank you so much for joining us today.
1:07.0	I thank you, you know.
1:09.0	You know, I love your will of pronouncing Des gluchin. You know, it's my favorite
1:12.6	pronouncing my one name. I'm very glad to hear that. Thank you. I'm very excited to talk with you
1:22.2	about two pianos, which I was lucky enough to see at the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year,
1:29.4	especially because the origin of this film is fascinating to me,
1:34.1	that it was born out of two separate stories,
1:37.6	one that you were working on, which was a romance about a woman who had a child very young,
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