Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

CookieInvent There's a good chance the film will make you laugh out loud, but if it doesn't, there's an even better chance it will make you openly sob.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Irishchatter Seeing this movie made me realize how sad Lea and Christine were being extremely fragile types weren't really involved with this world. They knew well the damage they had done and how it involved by being found out! I was surprised that they didn't even communicate with their employer and her daughter much because the pair of them were really good to them by putting the girls to work together! What really made then tick off, that will be a question throughout my lifetime because we won't ever know what really happened on that night.This movie really gave it all including Julie Walters who is the best actress out there and all the actresses that were involved in the film :)

JM_Hizon Most viewers could gloss over this film and say that it's about incest, or lesbian incest. But it's not; it's about class warfare. Or rather, a cold war between the upper and lower class. Neither side wants to commit the first strike. But when it finally happens, it unravels savagely as years of bottled-up frustration erupt at the worst possible time.It's also a parable about the unnatural structure of state society. One that creates predicaments in which people like the Papin sisters could be mentally repressed to the extent that their sexuality is misguided in an unorthodox direction. Christine and Lea's suffering happened because society has become complacent in the way class order is practiced.I enjoyed this narrative because there's no plot, yet the antagonist is clear from the beginning. The harder the oppressor bears down on Christine and Lea, the more introverted their sexual energy became. From an artistic stand point, this was an exercise in subtlety. At no point does the script underestimate the viewer's intelligence. Only available lighting was used- creating an atmosphere of seclusion and privacy while underlining the fact that Christine and Lea's conduct were perfectly natural (given their circumstances). Low color saturation emphasizes the inhibiting nature of man-made social structure.At one point, we cross cut between the madame and Izabelle playing cards with the maids having sex- indicating the distinction between superficial pleasure and organic pleasure. The performances are an example of four actresses who genuinely enjoy acting. It's a shame movies like this are difficult to find and are rarely viewed.

sdillon-5 what a brilliant film. every moment is just dripping with the heat of it. every drop of water from the tap intensifies as the story persists and comes, all at once and with some ferocity, to it's apex.jodhi may is stunning. joely richardson is breath-taking and frightening. you come to understand them and to... well, to like them. julie walters and sophie thursfield provide some comical relief as the madame and her daughter isabelle. their interactions with one another are strikingly bourgeoisie, but equally as maddening as each little minutia of their day is brought to an extreme. bravo to the makers of this film.it will stay with me for days, if not weeks, if not a lifetime.

MartinHafer Two sisters have a job working as maids for a lady and her older daughter. At first, the family is thrilled, but over time there is a slow change in the sisters. The begin withdrawing and talking almost never at all with their employers, but they continue doing their job. Then, kind of out of the blue, the sisters begin having hot sex with each other (ewwww). From this point on, they withdraw even more and begin sneaking caresses and kisses when they should be working. As the sisters change, the employers begin to resent and despise having them there--finding fault in most everything they do.SISTER MY SISTER is based on a true story of two sisters who worked as maids for a lady and her daughter. Unfortunately, this all occurred a long time ago and the dead cannot give their side of the story. So, the film is a dramatization of what they THINK could have occurred leading up to the sisters murdering their employers. And, in the film, you are led to slowly care less and less about the eventual victims--almost excusing how they were so cruelly butchered. This aspect of the film really bothered me, as some might feel excessive connection with the evil events and those who perpetrated it.Still, despite this, the film is well acted and paced. I just didn't understand the WHY.