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'When I travelled, I hid my passport': Fassbinder muse Barbara Sukowa on Hitler's legacy and hidden love

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Surely, I suggest to Barbara Sukowa – as she strolls around her garden in Brooklyn and I watch from 3,500 miles away on WhatsApp – it’s time lesbians were shown differently in cinema.

Out and proud, not leading furtive double lives. Maybe it’s because they are so often set in the past: The Favourite, Lizzie, Ammonite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

But Two of Us, Sukowa’s new film, about two octogenarian women in a provincial French town, is set in the present day.That’s not the key difference, she says. “Portrait was about young attractive women.

It has a titillating quality for men.” Two of Us is notable for its lack of sensual moments.In the film, the Italian director Filippo Meneghetti’s debut, Madeleine and Nina live in adjoining.

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