Two sisters (who are not sisters), two pregnancies, a two-seater car, a beauty queen, a poodle. The election of a second fascist – this time in Brazil. A crime thriller without a crime, DEUX SOEURS QUI NE SONT PAS SOEURS unfolds like a dream. Shot on 16mm anamorphic and based on an original screenplay by Gertrude Stein, written in 1929 as European fascism was gaining momentum, the film is set in contemporary Paris in a moment of comparable social and political unrest. Casting an intimate network of the director’s friends and influences as its principal actors, from renowned New York school poet Alice Notley to educator Diocouda Diaoune and playing on Stein’s interest in autobiography and repetition, the film is simultaneously an abstract thriller and a collective portrait