The Sisters Brothers (2018)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
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 West is captured by veteran cinematographer Benoît Debie, who often works with Argentinian filmmaker Gaspar Noé (see “Irreversible” and others).
Unlike other revisionist Westerns, dedicated to showcasing the brutality of existence in the old West (think The Hateful Eight or Bone Tomahawk ) The Sisters Brothers is, surprisingly, far more compassionate - embroiling us in the feelings of the brothers as they reconcile with a trauma from their childhood.
A kind of post-western in the vein of Slow West , Deadwood or Bone Tomahawk , Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers returns to the iconic open plains and hardy saloons of John Ford and Sergio Leone, but with the rose-tinted lens torn from the camera and flung into the mud.
Unlike other revisionist Westerns, dedicated to showcasing the brutality of existence in the old West (think The Hateful Eight or Bone Tomahawk ) The Sisters Brothers is, surprisingly, far more compassionate - embroiling us in the feelings of the brothers as they reconcile with a trauma from their childhood.
Hot off his campy success with the wildly over-the-top Western “Django Unchained,” Quentin Tarantino gave us 2015’s “The Hateful Eight.”