Sister
Film

Please note: This was screened in Sept 2015

Director
Ursula Meier
Cast
Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston
Details
95 mins, & Subtitled, 2012, France / Switzerland

Ursula Meier's follow up her 2008 debut Home is another drama about the growing gap between rich and poor featuring a great soundtrack by John Parish. Twelve year old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his twenty-something volatile sister (Léa Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister jobless and pretty much useless, Simon takes on the responsibility of providing for the two of them, escaping to the opulent ski world above to steal from rich tourists. He is able to keep them afloat, but when Simon partners with a crooked British seasonal worker, he begins to lose his boundaries, thrusting him into dark, dangerous territory...


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