The Sisters Brothers

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2018

2h 1m

English

Drama, Western

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Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

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The Sisters Brothers

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2018

2h 1m

English

Drama, Western

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Cast

Eli Sisters

Charlie Sisters

John Morris

Hermann Kermit Warm

Mayfield

Girl Mayfield Saloon

The Commodore

Mrs Sisters

Blount

Blount Guy Dying

Relay Owner

Storekeeper Pioneer Town 2

Creed Bratton

Quarrel Saloon Guy Town 02

Lenuta Bala

Woman with the Bortsch

Jochen Hägele

Horse Dealer Town 03

Eric Colvin

Horse Dealer Relay 02

Aldo Maland

Young Eli

Theo Exarchopoulos

Young Charlie

Sean Duggan

Jacksonville House Keeper

Raymond Waring

Mayfield Bartender

Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson

Head Trapper

Gerard Cooke

Storekeeper Mayfield

Frédéric Siuen

Pacific Chinese Dad Prospector

Trevor Allan Davies

Golden Pearl Valet

Aidan O'Hare

Horse Dealer American River

Directed By: Jacques Audiard

Written By: Jacques Audiard (Screenplay), Thomas Bidegain (Screenplay), + 1 more

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Saint Pauly says...

6 years ago

_The Sisters Brothers_ is like a French barbecue: it tries to be authentic but gets lost in all the style. Classic Westerns are classic because they are simple stories based on basic archetypes: good, evil, love, hate, greed, revenge... They are, essentially, retellings of Greek myths in cowboy days. And it's still possible to tap into this story-driven ethos as illustrated by films like _Young Guns_, _Hell or High Water_, or my personal favourite, _Bone Tomahawk_. But there's another school of filmmaking bent on making sweeping, character-driven epics that typically end up as little more than rambling tales of which one can make neither head nor tails. Which is fine for the character but bad for the horse he's driving, because the horse usually winds up lost. _The Sisters Brothers_ is a beautiful film (with special mention to the wonderful score by Alexandre Desplat (_The Tree of Life_, _The Shape of Water_, _Isle of Dogs_...)) containing wonderful vistas and better than average performances, but the story line that insists on running out for two full hours stretches itself thin. Slathering barbecue sauce on duck à l'orange doesn't make it Tex-Mex.

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AdamMorgan says...

6 years ago

Another Western? Noooooooo, it isn't. Like most good movies with a Western backdrop the key to the film is a good story. That's one of the reasons that I've often thought Westerns are an excellent genre - the writer is not encumbered by needing to explain job, marriage, kids, etc. We can just get right to story. Fun fact - The story in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was borrowed from a ninja movie. A good story is a good story regardless of genre. First and foremost, the acting is tremendous. Phoenix and Jake Gyllenhaal offer up stellar performances but the real heart of this movie comes from John C. Reilly and Riz Ahmed (who was excellent in The Night Of). From beginning to end this just has a very unique feel to it that I couldn't put my hand on. The final five minutes made me realize what that feeling was (I won't say here). The message of the film wasn't about the old west or anything like that. To borrow from the Grinch: it was something much more. follow me at https://IHATEBadMovies.com and IHateBadMovies on facebook

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Mr. Sackamano says...

6 years ago

Far better than expected... The comedy takes a back seat to great acting... My ol'lady killed me, after John C Reilly got bit and swole up, she said look! It's Amy Schumer bahahaha

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Wolf666 says...

5 years ago

Waste of good actors for a french western.

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JimDarko

8/10 6 years ago

I’m not much of a western person, but the cast of this movie caught my interest. I saw a trailer a while back and it seemed to have a Coen Brothers vibe, I suppose that can still be said about the film. Forgive me but I am not familiar with the works of Jacques Audiard but this movie is quite a jo More

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Stephen Campbell

5 years ago

_**A plodding and overlong tale of violence and redemption that doesn't seem to know quite what it's trying to say**_

> _You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away._

- Patrick deW More

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Gimly

6 years ago

Certainly the better of the two Westerns I've seen today, but I'm also not really feeling the love with _Sisters Brothers_ like everybody else seems to be.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

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Keeper70

5 years ago

The Sisters Brothers is another modern western that attempts to show a different west from the traditionally accepted, which it mainly succeeds all the while somehow staying close to what the viewer expects.

There’s more to cold-blooded killers than cold-blooded killing but they still are very More

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