Starring Raynal herself, Deux fois is one of the most notable, and enigmatic, films to have come from the Zanzibar Group, a collective of young artists and directors making underground movies full of the energy and apathy of May ’68.
The film constitutes a deconstructionist fable that opens with a “Pre-Raphaelite self-portrait” of Raynal where she sits calmly before her dinner, head bowed, hands folded. Raynal announces each of the film’s sequences, unconnected and some repeated twice, proclaiming, theatrically and ironically: “Tonight will be the end of meaning.”