Arnaud Desplechin

[Lowry_Sam]

Deux pianos U.S. trailer. In theaters May 1.

What a disastrous trailer! It shows way too much and is completely tonally off.

And temporally too, it hasn't appeared at a single theater in the SF Bay area this month, could it still be coming?

[therewillbeblus]

This has the theatrical release schedule bottom of page

[Aunt Peg]

And coming to DVD only on 14 July: https://kinolorber.com/product/two-pianos

[Lowry_Sam]

This has the theatrical release schedule bottom of page

And coming to DVD only on 14 July: https://kinolorber.com/product/two-pianos

So in other words, coming to a library near you by the end of the year.

[Matt]

I doubt many public libraries are buying this, and I doubt many academic libraries are still buying DVDs if it's going to be on Kanopy or Kino's streaming. In other words, I don't really know who this DVD is for.

[Lowry_Sam]

My local library still buys dvds, usually for just the biggest titles of the year (and it has never bought blu-rays). The last Criterion discs to be added were Flow & Anora. Kino titles used to be more frequent, but now that just means a handful per year. Still looking at the release schedule it looks like there's still a better chance it ends up in my library as opposed to a theater within 50 miles.

[Never Cursed]

Here's a weird bit of news: the Saudi producers of Woody Allen's next movie have also announced that they will fund Desplechin's next, The Thing That Hurts. Ruimy has thrown around the names of cast (Lea Seydoux, Jason Schwartzman, Alfre Woodard, Felicity Jones, John Turturro, Golshifteh Farahani) and producers (Wes Anderson) that are supposedly in the process of being confirmed for the movie, but the Deadline article uses much less certain language.

Per Cineuropa, this shot last month (in Belgium and Paris as well as Benin) and has wrapped with the intention of being released in 2027. Most of the cast quoted above appears to be the same, though with Noémie Merlant rather than Lea Seydoux and André Holland and J.K. Simmons(!) rather than John Turturro.