Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

Local title
Kaks võõrast, kes üritavad üksteist mitte tappa
Original title
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other
Director
Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet
Country
United Kingdom, Denmark, USA
Year
2024
Festival
19th Tartuff
Programme
Documentaries of Tartu Elektriteater
Subject
art, love, death

American Joel Meyerowitz, 84, is an internationally acclaimed photographer who has published 40 books. His British wife, Maggie Barrett, nine years his junior, is a novelist, pianist and painter who has struggled to gain recognition for her work. They live and grow old together in love and pain for 30 years. They argue, embrace, create, joke, doubt, support and travel together as almost invisible cameras follow the complexities of a long-term relationship over the course of a year. There is an incredible intimacy, trust and loving respect in the air. Maggie and Joel have nothing to hide, even in the shadow of death.

Another pair of directors, Manon & Jacob, wisely manipulate some necessary scenes, sometimes filming Joel and Maggie separately, using flashbacks of old personal photos to set up their past and present history, living with them in New York and Tuscany, following them at random until an unexpected incident intervenes. Romantic, funny and frank, this documentary is one of the hottest on the festival circuit after receiving a special mention at CPH:DOX.

Director
Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet
Screenwriter
Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet
Cast
Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett
Producer
Manon Ouimet, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Jacob Perlmutter
DoP
Jacob Perlmutter
Editor
Estephan Wagner, Josh Mallalieu
Composer
Diogo Strausz
Runtime
Language
Italian, English, French
Subtitles
partial English

Screenings

Hall Electric Cinema, Tartu
ScreeningKaks võõrast, kes üritavad üksteist mitte tappa
Subtitlespartial English
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