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  • Le Pacte
  • 1 h 48 m
  • Le Pacte
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Alice (Marion Cotillard) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.

Directed By: Arnaud Desplechin

Written By: Julie Peyr, Arnaud Desplechin

  • Le Pacte
  • 1 h 48 m
  • Le Pacte
  • 1 h 48 m

Brother and Sister

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
60
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Summary Alice (Marion Cotillard) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.

Directed By: Arnaud Desplechin

Written By: Julie Peyr, Arnaud Desplechin

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
60
63% Positive
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38% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
60
63% Positive
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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90
May 22, 2022
There isn’t a predictable moment, and Cotillard (who last worked with Desplechin on Ismael’s Ghosts) and Poupaud (who played a far more even-keeled Vuillard in A Christmas Tale) inhabit their roles with bracing fearlessness.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
83
May 22, 2022
Brother and Sister holds the line of his recent strong, if under-distributed work, but still doesn’t get within inches of his dazzling 90s-00s run. Yet it also gains credence and relevance as an epilogue (or mature re-consideration) of his past themes, a reminder of how few filmmakers contain his sensitivity, originality, and literary gifts.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW
80
May 22, 2022
Desplechin has a gift for examining grief and pain but often leavens the dismay with humour or irony. It is impossible to predict whether catharsis is within reach and that delicate balance is what keeps the proceedings compelling.
By Lisa Nesselson FULL REVIEW
65
May 22, 2022
As overflowing as it is with subplots and stylistic quirks, perhaps “Brother and Sister” should simply have concentrated on the brother and sister. That would have been more than enough.
By Nicholas Barber FULL REVIEW
50
May 22, 2022
Brother and Sister seems more like a retread (and a retreat) than anything that’s come prior, marking a new step forward for the lauded director by taking a disappointing step back.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
40
May 22, 2022
Alice and Louis are such artificial, wanly self-absorbed characters, forever speaking in finely turned, therapy-honed aphorisms that never sound anything other than screen-written, that it’s hard even to invest in their conflict at an abstract level.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
40
May 22, 2022
This is exasperatingly nonsensical and humourless: it is full of grand gestures, gigantically self-important acting, big scenes (though often bafflingly truncated), big emotions and smirkingly knowing dialogue. Yet I admit there is technique and gusto to the way it is put together.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Why Not Productions, Arte France Cinéma, Canal+, ARTE, Ciné+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Pictanovo, Région Hauts-de-France, Cinécap 5, Cinéventure 7, Cofinova 18, Indéfilms 10, La Banque Postale Image 15, Palatine Étoile 19
Duration 1 h 48 m
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Website https://le-pacte.com/france/film/frere-et-soeur
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Love is Folly International Film Festival, Bulgaria
• 1 Nomination

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