After seeing his last film (Deception) premiere in the Cannes Premiere section last year, Arnaud Desplechin returns to the competition section once again with Brother and Sister. This is his seventh comp offering after La sentinelle (1992), My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument (1996), Esther Kahn (2000), A Christmas Tale (2008), Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013), and the yummy 2019 procedural Oh Mercy!. This sees him reteam with Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.
Their parents might be on death’s bed but you would not know it as estranged adult children are willing to use eye daggers, kitchen knifes and publishing houses to bring each other down. The (mostly shouting) grudge match extends to years prior to this reunion.
Twelve of our twenty critics have weighed in and while there are some defenders — we’ve got more bottom feeder grades filtering in for what become another Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian low. So far, we’re looking at one of the worst film entries to be programmed in this year’s comp.
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