Written and directed by the team of Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh, the film gathers strength as it goes and plays like a “Twilight Zone” remake of Todd Haynes’ “Carol.”

Wonderfully acted and stunningly shot in ice-cold black and white, “Two People” shapes chillingly clever details and patient direction into a potent reminder that few things are more dangerous to authoritarianism than tenderness.

An uneven Euro-art bath of unrealized intimacy and casual violence but is given exquisite tautness by the elegant, unrequited swooniness of stars Zar Amir and Luàna Bajrami.

a jolt of pure absurdist adrenaline