With
Frère et Sœur
, Arnaud Desplechin is back in Roubaix, his hometown, and in the Vuillard family.
Nor quite the same as
Kings & Queen
and
A Christmas Tale
.
Nor quite another.
The filmmaker refocuses this time the story on the hatred between Alice (Marion Cotillard) and her brother Louis (Melvil Poupaud).
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LE FIGARO.
- Is
Brother and Sister
a variation on
A Christmas Tale
?
Arnaud DESPLECHIN.
-
The beginnings of the plot are the same.
A sister hates her brother.
In
A Christmas Tale
, it was Elisabeth (Anne Consigny) and Henri (Mathieu Amalric).
But this film is only digression.
The love story of Chiara Mastroianni has as much value as the cancer of Juno, the mother.
Brother and Sister
on the contrary goes straight ahead, picks up everything.
I had left Elisabeth on a balcony in a somewhat forced happy ending, without really relieving her of her grief.
I wanted to find a solution, relieve her of her hatred.
Brother and Sister
is a film about an incestuous hatred...
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