Sister My Sister movie storyline. This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930’s. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself. The relationship of the sisters slowly evolves into obsession, brought about by isolation and by emotions left from childhood. Trapped in a garret room, the sisters’ violent downstairs-upstairs collision with Madame Danzard and the lumpy Isabelle seems certain.
Sister My Sister is a 1994 film starring British actresses Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, and Jodhi May. The film was directed by Nancy Meckler and written by Wendy Kesselman, based on her own play, My Sister in This House. Both the play and the subsequent film deal with societal repression and its victims.
The film is based on a true incident in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter. The murder shocked the country, and there was much speculation about the sisters, including allegations that they were having an incestous lesbian affair with each other.
Sister My Sister (1995)
Directed by: Nancy Meckler
Starring: Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie Thursfield, Amelda Brown, Lucita Pope, Kate Gartside, Aimee Schmidt, Gabriella Schmidt
Screenplay by: Wendy Kesselman
Production Design by: Caroline Amies
Cinematography by: Ashley Rowe
Film Editing by: David Stiven
Costume Design by: Lindy Hemming
Art Direction by: Frank Walsh
Music by: Stephen Warbeck
MPAA Rating: R for sexuality and a brutal murder sequence.
Distributed by: Seventh Art Releasing
Release Date: July 14, 1995
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