Coming to theaters in 2022, the moving drama Brother and Sister tells the story of a brother and sister in their fifties. Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and a poet. Alice hated her brother for over twenty years. They will have to meet again when their parents die.
“Is there an end to hatred, this other form of love, how to dry up hatred?” These are the questions that director Arnaud Desplechin, at the height of his art, tried to answer with this masterful film presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and aired at Artes this Wednesday evening.
brotherA powerful, deeply human family drama, it leads to a conflicted relationship between two individuals, sowing hints about the reasons for this hatred, but without a final answer.
“The film belongs to the family, intimate genre, but I kept reading to place the film in a wider field”declares Arno DesplechinA genius director to whom we owe especially Kings and Queen and Three Memories of My Youth.
“Why do we hate anyone? Why? There is never a satisfying answer. Like Louis, I think asking why is immoral. There is no reason for anyone to hate anything outside of themselves.”
“Marion’s face is like a map to guide us, but a map of what?”
An intense and heart-wrenching film, brother is lit by a duo consisting of Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud, impressive. But we can’t forget to mention Golshifteh Farahan’s excellent performance.
with brother, Arno Desplechin find it Marion Cotillard (which has a double in Hollywood) after The Ghosts of Ismaël. “If there’s an actor we can’t judge, who we love unconditionally, it’s him Marion Cotillard“The filmmaker is delighted.
“She has this clarity that I don’t know how to explain. But I love her unconditionally. Marion’s face is like a map that guides us, but a map of what? Of childhood, of its horror, its wonder, or its sadness. That I don’t know how to understand.”
Tonight at Arte at 20:55.
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