2 Seconds

2 Seconds (French: 2 secondes) is a Canadian drama film, released in 1998. 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]

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

Cast
  • Charlotte Laurier as Laurie, a professional downhill racer who gets fired because of her slight overindulgence in irresponsibility
  • Dino Tavarone as Lorenzo, an ex Italian professional racer who currently works as a bike mechanic in his own bike shop
  • Jonathan Bolduc as Jeune Lorenzo
  • Suzanne Clément as La Bella, Laurie's love interest
  • Yves P. Pelletier as Steff
  • Louise Forestier as Laurie's Mother[3]

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 Winner
Best Director Manon Briand Winner
Montréal award of the best First Fiction FIlm Manon Briand Winner
Grand Prix des Ameriques Manon Briand Nominated
FedEx Award of the best Canadian Film 2 secondes (Manon Briand) Winner
1998 Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film[7] Best First Screenplay Manon Briand Winner
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
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See also
  • List of LGBT films directed by women

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. 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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