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7.0/10   899 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Wendy Kesselman (play)
Wendy Kesselman (screenplay)
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Release Date:
14 July 1995 (USA) more
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Plot:
This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930's. Two young, country sisters... more | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins more
User Comments:
Spare, dark and beautiful film. more (20 total)

Cast

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Julie Walters ... Madame Danzard

Joely Richardson ... Christine
Jodhi May ... Lea
Sophie Thursfield ... Isabelle Danzard
Amelda Brown ... Visitor
Lucita Pope ... Visitor
Kate Gartside ... Sister Veronica
Aimee Schmidt ... Young Lea
Gabriella Schmidt ... Young Christine
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality and a brutal murder sequence.
Runtime:
104 min | UK:89 min | USA:86 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Version of Stuepigerne (1962) (TV) more

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15 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
Spare, dark and beautiful film., 7 May 2001
10/10
Author: out2l8 from Home or somewhere like it

I loved Sister, My Sister...in fact, I bought it without having seen it first based on recommendation alone, and I haven't regretted it one bit. I think that the acting was great, by the entire cast; I felt that the storyline (based on an actual murder case and subsequent play), though revisited in this film, is still relevant in that it addresses issues of classism, oppression, and societal stigmatization. To dismiss this film as merely an incestuous, murderous lesbian romp is a mistake. Even though the lesbian subject seemed to be a large factor, there is a definite timidity to the photography of the sex scenes, in that there was more in the way of well framed shots than fleshy action given the intensity of feeling portrayed. So probably, the film isn't as offensive as the description might imply. I feel that the film was evenly handled throughout. Even the murders, while fairly gruesome as described in the voiceover of the trial, weren't disgustingly splatter film-like, they, like the sex scenes left much to the imagination. I recommend this film highly, it's not at all fluffy feel-good schlock, it's disturbing, dark and painful - that's what makes it so good!

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