Remaking Claude Founier’s 1970 film of the same name, Chloé Robichaud’s Two Women is a modern attempt at rehashing a dated trope. It features unsatisfied women moving aimlessly around their homes, seeking a solution to their loveless marriages. Robichaud, working off Catherine Léger’s screenplay, is unable to deliver a fresh enough solution to this simple problem. Unfortunately, for Robichaud and Leger’s film, the source material makes its presence felt in a way that overpowers any novel ideas.

Violette (Laurence Leboeuf), a young mother to an infant finds herself struggling alone through the monotonous, tiring post-partum routine. With her salesman husband Benoit (Félix Moati) always away to some convention, Violette turns to her neighbor next door – Florence (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman). A woman looking to free herself from her anti-depressants, Florence occupies a similar flat as Violette’s in the modest co-op. Living along with her longtime boyfriend David (Mani Soleymanlou), and their 10-year-old son, Florence is quick to warm up to Violette as the two women bond over the constraints that monogamy, disinterested husbands, and needy children have put on their personal pleasure.