Your Sister's Sister (2011)
If you watch a lot of indie movies, chances are Mark Duplass and Rosemarie DeWitt are household names. Emily Blunt, a woman I’ve never thought of as an indie actress, has actually made her fair share of offbeat flicks. Your Sister’s Sister is about as indie as it gets, from start to finish. If you don’t like the style, you will not like it. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but I recognize that die-hard indie fans will find it very funny and quirky. I found it unnecessarily strange.
Let’s address the elephant in the room: how can one sister have an American accent and the other have a British accent? Yes, it can be explained away by growing up abroad or being half-siblings raised by different mothers or fathers, but the fact remains it’s always jarring and removes credibility from the rest of the story. Since I’ve heard Emily put on an American accent in other films, I have no idea why didn’t repeat it for this one. But believe me, this is the least of our worries in this complex, bordering-on-disturbing, nearly-all-improvised story.
Emily and Mark and friends, but she’s secretly in love with him. When he needs some alone time to deal with his feelings, Emily offers him to stay in her mountain cabin. Turns out, her sister Rosemarie is already staying there, and although she’s a lesbian, she sleeps with Mark. I’m not kidding, folks. If you’re shaking your head at that premise, don’t rent the movie. The rest of it will continue to annoy you. If you’re intrigued and think it’s “deep”, you’ll probably find these extremely flawed and emotionally stunted characters easy to root for. Personally, I wish I’d turned it off. There wasn’t anything about it I found enjoyable, and if it was the first movie I’d seen of any of the three, I’d never want to see another.
More Emily Blunt movies here!
Let’s address the elephant in the room: how can one sister have an American accent and the other have a British accent? Yes, it can be explained away by growing up abroad or being half-siblings raised by different mothers or fathers, but the fact remains it’s always jarring and removes credibility from the rest of the story. Since I’ve heard Emily put on an American accent in other films, I have no idea why didn’t repeat it for this one. But believe me, this is the least of our worries in this complex, bordering-on-disturbing, nearly-all-improvised story.
Emily and Mark and friends, but she’s secretly in love with him. When he needs some alone time to deal with his feelings, Emily offers him to stay in her mountain cabin. Turns out, her sister Rosemarie is already staying there, and although she’s a lesbian, she sleeps with Mark. I’m not kidding, folks. If you’re shaking your head at that premise, don’t rent the movie. The rest of it will continue to annoy you. If you’re intrigued and think it’s “deep”, you’ll probably find these extremely flawed and emotionally stunted characters easy to root for. Personally, I wish I’d turned it off. There wasn’t anything about it I found enjoyable, and if it was the first movie I’d seen of any of the three, I’d never want to see another.
More Emily Blunt movies here!