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Sister My Sister
- Director: Nancy Meckler
- Writer: Wendy Kesselman
- Producer: Joyce Herlihy; Norma Heyman
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A true story...
An all-woman production that is dark...and, at times, stagnant.
There is no faulting the performances - although they do all seem a little under-played which makes the resolution difficult to digest.
Kesselman's script, in too many places, seems labored and false.
Meckler's direction falls into the shadows.
Ultimately, the film fails - the writing and direction are too cumbersome to raise this above mediocrity.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930's. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself. The relationship of the sisters slowly evolves into obsession, brought about by isolation and by emotions left from childhood. Trapped in a garret room, the sisters' violent downstairs-upstairs collision with Madame Danzard and the lumpy Isabelle seems certain.
Cast & Characters
Julie Walters as Madame Danzard;
Joely Richardson as Christine;
Jodhi May as Lea;
Sophie Thursfield as Isabelle Danzard;
Amelda Brown as Visitor;
Lucita Pope as Visitor;
Kate Gartside as Sister Veronica;
Aimee Schmidt as Young Lea;
Gabriella Schmidt as Young Christine