In
Un conte de Noël
and
Rois & Reine
, Arnaud Desplechin was already exploring blood ties, again at the heart of
Frère et Soeur
.
The film is in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2022. This is the seventh selection from the director who we can't wait to see, with a large part of his team, tread the steps of the Palais du festival on May 20 next.
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Louis (Melvil Poupaud), tempestuous and solitary writer, and Alice (Marion Cotillard), former rebellious teenager turned actress and benevolent, no longer support each other.
After a fusional youth, communication broke down violently.
But the hospitalization of their parents forces them to dive back into their memories, to grind their still gaping wounds and to question their relationship again.
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Drunk"
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In "Brother and Sister", Marion Cotillard plays Alice.
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The insoluble hatred
After directing certain episodes of season 2 of En Thérapie (2022), Arnaud Desplechin plunges back into raw emotion.
This time, he has chosen to explore a difficult and not very rosy feeling: the hatred that tears brother and sister apart.
“It took me ten years to realize that hatred had taken over,” breathes Alice (played by Marion Cotillard) in the trailer.
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Louis, played by Melvil Poupaud in "Brother and Sister" Shanna Besson - Why Not Productions
“The film comes to say the opposite of what the characters express”, details the filmmaker in a press release.
““I am no longer your sister”, “I am no longer your brother”.
Yes, you are brother and sister.
The title goes as straight as the story.
Alice and Louis don't want to live with this idea and yet, in the end, they live with it.
It's that simple."
Melvil Poupaud and Marion Cotillard are excellent in this elegant symphony of images, sensations and poetry.
Brother and Sister
, a film directed by Arnaud Desplechin starring Marion Cotillard, Melvil Poupaud, Patrick Timsit, Golshifteh Farahani and Benjamin Siksou, in theaters May 20, 2022.