2 Seconds
French2 Secondes
Directed byManon Briand
Written byManon Briand
Produced byRoger Frappier
Starring
CinematographyLouise Archambault
Pierre Crépô
James Gray
Edited byRichard Comeau
Music byDominique Grand
Sylvain-Charles Grand
Production
company
Max Films Productions
Release date
September 12, 1998 (Canada) June 25, 2003 (France)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish and French interchangeably

2 Seconds (French: 2 secondes) is a 1998 Canadian drama film. This film premiered in 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival.[1] Written and directed by Manon Briand, 2 Seconds stars Charlotte Laurier as Laurie, a bisexual woman who takes a job as a bike courier in Montreal after being fired from her previous job as a professional downhill racer.[2] Laurie is forcefully retired as a downhill racer when her concerns about her signs of aging cause her to lose her last race by 2 seconds (hence the name of the movie). Laurie and the one bike she was allowed to keep then move in with her geeky, physics-loving brother who is trying very hard to find a girlfriend. While putting her bike together, Laurie discovers that she is missing a gear on her bicyclette so she makes do with what she has. Because of this, she breaks the chain on her bike one day, leading to her meeting with her soon-to-be best friend Lorenzo. Lorenzo is an ex Italian professional racer who currently works as a bike mechanic in his own bike shop. offered her a job at the bicycle company, but one of her co workers, Willie, tries to make her life miserable. After talking to Lorenzo, Laurie figures out what she needs to do to help herself and try to resolve things.[3]

Cast

Reception

Critical reception

Brendan Kelly of Variety praised the film, saying "there is no shortage of nifty visual flourishes. . .Soundtrack is an appropriately cool urban mix of jazz and modern-rock sounds."[4] The Melbourne International Film Festival called it "An understated film with an extraordinarily simple premise"[5]

Awards

Year Award Category Recipients Results
1998 Montreal World Film Festival[6] Best Canadian Film Manon Briand Won
Best Director Manon Briand Won
Montréal award of the best First Fiction Film Manon Briand Won
Grand Prix des Ameriques Manon Briand Nominated
FedEx Award of the best Canadian Film 2 secondes (Manon Briand) Won
1998 Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film[7] Best First Screenplay Manon Briand Won
1999 1st Jutra Awards Best Picture Roger Frappier Nominated
Best Director Manon Briand Nominated
Best Actor Dino Tavarone Nominated
Best Actress Charlotte Laurier Nominated
Best Screenplay Manon Briand Nominated
Best Sound Yvon Benoît, Martin Pinsonnault, Hans Peter Strobl, Louis Hone Nominated
Best Editing Richard Comeau Nominated

See also

References

  1. ↑ Briand, M. (2016). 2 Seconds. Retrieved December 01, 2016, from https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/2_seconds/
  2. ↑ Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780773530690.
  3. 1 2 2 Seconds. (1990). Retrieved December 1, 2016, from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/
  4. ↑ Kelly, Brendan (1998-09-16). "2 Seconds". Variety. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  5. ↑ "MIFF 2018 | Festival Archive 1952-2017". MIFF 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  6. ↑ "AWARDS OF THE MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL-1998". Archived from the original on 2018-09-12.
  7. ↑ 2 secondes, retrieved 2018-04-03
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