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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304137185
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304137184
Label: Unapix Consumer Products
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Unapix Consumer Products
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Unapix Consumer Products
Release Date: November 19, 1996
Running Time: 86 minutes
Studio: Unapix Consumer Products
Theatrical Release Date: July 14, 1995
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Christine (Joely Richardson) and Lea (Jodhi May) are sisters who were separated at a young age. Through Christine's clever machinations, they have been reunited by working as maids for a very proper lady and her bored and restless daughter. When the already passionate bond between the sisters becomes sexual, it sets up a series of events that lead to tragedy. Set in 1932 France, this film is supposedly based on a true story. Viewers looking for a sort of Playboy meets Merchant-Ivory romp will have to look elsewhere--the sex here is very discreet. Instead what we get is a nifty little piece of suspense and psychological horror that features taut direction, a smart script, spotless production values, and a topnotch cast. Julie Walters is marvelously funny--and scary--as the lady of the house who "sees everything" (but actually can't see beyond the tip of her nose), and Joely Richardson is heartbreaking as a seemingly self-reliant woman who is terrified of having her sister taken away again. --Geof Miller
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Sister My Sister is a very well-made and well-acted film; however, the DVD quality is below average in both picture and sound; that's why I've given it three stars. It's a shame that some companies ruin good films by producing substandard DVDs. The DVD is in 4:3 aspect ratio.
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how upper middle class that can afford servants, treated those servants. Yes, its only one household, but I can't imagine any of the masters being "kind" to lower end maids. Especially, this woman, who watched every move they made, even though she was paying them a pitance, she was lucky to get 2 for the price of 1, but she kept nit picking, and brow beating them anyway. Granted, these maids were not mentally stable, but who would be after years of abandonment, abuse, and lack of any affection. And the last encounter the was bound to happen, after all, how much could they take before snapping?
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I'm sorry to put this review up, but my DVD was contain a documentary or some sort, so, I was wondering, it is normal or I'm being unlucky and got the one that is being mixed up
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This is the film that served as my belated introduction to France's Papin Sisters, Lea and Christine. When in their twenties, they viciously murdered their employer and her unfortunate daughter, while monsieur was away. "Sister My Sister", written by one Wendy Kesselman, leaves monsieur out, replaces the relatively unattractive Papins with two photogenic British actresses, and proceeds to be both ominously claustrophobic and extremely erotic--all despite, alas, both girls remaining clothed. Joely Richardson (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave) and a very young Jodhi May give monumental performances; and the chemistry between the two is quite extraordinary. Early on in the film, it becomes apparent that this is far from your run-of-the mill sisterly relationship, when, after a quarrel over their despotic and devisive mother, Lea and Christine begin acting conspicuously like lovers. As their incestuous (not to mention lesbian) romance blossoms, we become aquainted with The Danzards, a ... Read More
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I wanted to like this movie. Originally, I looked at it like this. The premise sounded kind of creepy, so I'd probably like it for the plot...If not, I could always fall back on the lesbian scenes. After all, the cover of the film itself suggests that it contains that kind of content in abundance. I was wrong on both counts. The movie is only 85 minutes long, but it seems drawn out.
The plot is based on a true story and is about a maid named Christine (Joely Richardson), who brings her sister Lea (Jodhi May) to work with her in the house of Madame Danzard (Julie Walters) and her daughter Isabelle (Sophie Thursfield). Madame and Isabelle like the two sisters, they're quiet and rarely speak, except to each other. But the two sisters have a clear sexual tension with each other, which soon leads to a lesbian/incestual love affair...And murder. The acting here is excellent; Standouts were Walters and Richardson, but all of it is great. The picture-quality of the DVD is kind of shoddy, ... Read More
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