“I wanted to do this project for a long time, I had this story in mind for years and years,” says director Filippo Meneghetti about Two of Us, France’s Oscar entry this year, adding that he also spent an additional five years writing the screenplay with his co-writer Malysone Bovorasmy.The story’s dynamic, which sees two pensioners living opposite each other who have a long-time lesbian love affair that they keep secret, was inspired by two couples. “One was two important people in my own life who were very close to me, and the others were two women I never actually met – they were the neighbors of a friend of mine who became widows at the same time and they shared a landing opposite their apartments,” Meneghetti says during Deadline’s