Sister (2012)
86%RT Audience Score: 75%
Awards & Nominations: NA
Léa Seydoux and Kacey Mottet Klein are exceptional as downtrodden siblings in this sad and wintry character study
Sister is a movie that will make you laugh, cry, and everything in between. The performances are exceptional, and the cinematography is beautiful. It’s a heartbreaking story that’s also bittersweet, and the director’s talent shines through in every scene. You’ll be rooting for the characters until the very end, and the final moments will leave you feeling euphoric. Don’t forget to bring tissues!
Production Company(ies)
Les Films, Impéria Les Productions, Georges de Beauregard Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
Year of Release
2012
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:16:9 HD
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):
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Country of origin:China
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Mar 19, 2013
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
Sister, drama, French (Canada), skiing, theft, poverty, siblings, Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson, directed by Ursula Meier, produced by André Bouvard and Denis Freyd, written by Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier, Gilles Taurand, Antoine Jaccoud, box office gross of $27.9K, reviewed by Sara Michelle Fetters, Roxana Hadadi, Emma Myers, Tom Long, J.R Jones, A.A Dowd, Nicholas Bell, Kelly Jane Torrance, Jamie Neish, Steve Erickson, MPAA rating not specified, character study, sad, winter, beautiful cinematography, Swiss winter, Dardennes-like move, fragile, tenuously hopeful
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Budget and Earnings Details
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Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
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Léa Seydoux – Louise
Martin Compston – Mike
Gillian Anderson – Kristin Jansen
Jean-François Stévenin – Chef
Yann Trégouët – Bruno
Director(s)
Ursula Meier
Writer(s)
Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier, Gilles Taurand, Antoine Jaccoud
Producer(s)
André Bouvard, Denis Freyd
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (71) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (3)
While Sister isnt without its issues, this drama remains something special, the films final moments an avalanche of genuine human understanding that had me happily reaching for the tissues while also letting out a silent euphoric cheer of appreciation.
April 5, 2022 | Rating: 3/4
Sara Michelle Fetters
MovieFreak.com
TOP CRITIC
Aside from the strong performances, there’s beautiful, saddening cinematography, too.
January 9, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5
Roxana Hadadi
Punch Drunk Critics
TOP CRITIC
Scorn may give way to momentary solicitude, but Sister is by no means a tenderhearted morality tale.
November 5, 2013
Emma Myers
Film Comment Magazine
TOP CRITIC
What a beautiful and desperate film.
January 18, 2013 | Rating: A
Tom Long
Detroit News
TOP CRITIC
[An] absorbing French drama.
January 10, 2013
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
For fans of Ursula Meier’s last movie, the strikingly offbeat domestic drama Home, this act of auteur-on-auteur emulation may feel like a comedown. Yet it’s still stirring work.
January 9, 2013 | Rating: 4/5
A.A. Dowd
Time Out Chicago
TOP CRITIC
Meier’s bleak second feature proves she is indeed a director of significant talent.
August 5, 2019
Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
Sister is a heartbreaking movie whose deft touches of humor only make the story more bittersweet.
December 20, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4
Kelly Jane Torrance
Washington Examiner
The performances, both from Klein and Seydoux are nothing short of exceptional. Each in their own noteworthy ways manage to navigate the concentrated fashion of the screenplay in tremendous, deeply praiseworthy manner.
August 14, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
Jamie Neish
HeyUGuys
Agnes Godard’s lovely cinematography captures the look and feel of a Swiss winter, as well as the subtle changes over the course of a season…. [Director Urusla] Meier’s direction is self-consciously beautiful.
February 22, 2018
Steve Erickson
Gay City News
It’s a Dardennes-like move that Meier makes here, plunking us down, without judgment, in the middle of a low life. Just 13 here, Klein, who debuted in Meier’s Home at 10 as the son Julien (a name he uses here as an alias) is remarkable.
January 9, 2016
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
The pair [Klein & Seydoux] artfully weaves the ties that bind, crafting something that is both fragile and tenuously hopeful.
November 12, 2013 | Rating: 4/5
Alice Tynan
Limelight…
Plot
A young boy steals from wealthy patrons at a ski resort to support himself and his irresponsible older sister in this French drama, Sister.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The performances of Léa Seydoux and Kacey Mottet Klein are exceptional in this sad and wintry character study.
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