Film
The Sisters Brothers
- Director
- Jacques Audiard
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 122 mins
Steady, subs! That title is correct: there’s no apostrophe – misplaced or otherwise. That’s because this is the comic and suitably violent tale of old west hitman siblings Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix). It’s also the English-language debut by Jacques Audiard, French director of A Prophet and Rust and Bone, which should serve as an alert that this is not going to be a standard-issue oater. Indeed, it’s a lovingly crafted character study adapted from a novel by Canadian author Patrick deWitt, harking back to the great revisionist westerns of the early 1970s.
A big cheese known as the Commodore (Rutger Hauer) engages the services of the Sisters to bump off thieving prospector Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed). But the wily Warm in turn hires protection in the form of lawman/detective John Morris (Jake Gyllenhal). Amusing trivia note: all those authentic wild west landscapes were shot in, erm, Spain and Romania.
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