Les soeurs fâchées (2004)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Alexandra Leclère

Writer:

Alexandra Leclère (writer)

Release Date:

22 December 2004 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Louise, younger sister, natural and straightforward, lives in province; Martine, older sister, beautiful and aloof...

Plot Keywords:

Paris | Big Sister | Sister Sister Relationship | Classical Concert | Sibling Rivalry

Cast

Isabelle Huppert	...	Martine Demouthy
Catherine Frot	...	Louise Mollet
François Berléand	...	Pierre Demouthy
Brigitte Catillon	...	Sophie
Michel Vuillermoz	...	Richard
Christiane Millet	...	Géraldine
Rose Thiéry	...	Fernanda, la bonne
Bruno Chiche	...	Charles
Jean-Philippe Puymartin	...	L'éditeur
Aurore Auteuil	...	L'hôtesse accueil éditeur
Antoine Beaufils	...	Alexandre Demouthy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Philippe Breton
Philippe Cacheux
Françoise Dubois	...	Hôtesse salon de coiffure
Denis Sylvain

Also Known As:

Me and My Sister (Australia) (DVD title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Sweden:Btl | Germany:12 | Australia:M | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | France:U | Spain:7

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Pan Européenne Production

Trivia:

Alexandra Leclère met Isabelle Huppert and offered her her script while she was waiting outside school for her youngest son.

Quotes:

Martine: Happiness, there's more to life than just that !

Movie Connections:

Features Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)

Soundtrack:

Rue de Jollières

Two And Frot

I'm very surprised to find not a single comment on such a class act. Okay, it's a new release but it IS five days old now. Anyhow it's so good to see that Isabelle Huppert has temporarily abandoned her apparent avowed intent to plumb the depths of sleaze in her ongoing trawl through the sewers of the world and return to what she does better than most actresses anyplace, anytime, anywhere that this could be a stinker and it would still be a breath of fresh air. As it happens it's anything but and Huppert and Catherine Frot are twin delights. Huppert is the chic, snobbish wife living in the right arrondissement, checking accounts in all the right places and the right kind of husband to pick up the tab. The wonderful Francis Berleand scores as the unfaithful husband who can't stand sister-in-law Frot; normally that's not a problem since Frot lives in the provinces but now she's written a book and has come to town to rubber-stamp a publishing deal and will spend three days with Huppert and Berleand. What we have is a very low-key take on Neil Simon's Odd Couple with Frot being everything Huppert is not and vice versa. Frot, fresh from playing a Tyrant's Tyrant in Vipere au poing turns up here as the kind of lovable kook that Shirley MacLaine was always being cast as but could never quite bring off because she couldn't do lovable (she couldn't do kook either if anybody ask you but that's another story), and she shows Maclaine just how it's done.

Okay, we're talking soufflé here but it's a French soufflé, hand-made at Maxim's. Eat, Enjoy.