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Tango01 | 11 Sep 2018 9:11 p.m. PST |
…Western "Making a unique Western is a difficult task. But then again not every Western has Patrick deWitt's melancholic, strange novel The Sisters Brothers as its source material. Director Jacques Audiard's adaptation of the book stays true to its offbeat tone, rich characters, and plot-lite structure, but a tremendous quartet of actors even elevate deWitt's pages at times, resulting in a fascinating, poetic, funny, and thought-provoking journey. The Sisters Brothers opens in 1851 Oregon, and we meet our two main characters—brothers Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix)—in the dead of night, as they riddle a quiet, dark house with bullets. The Sisters Brothers, you see, are a pair of notorious hitmen, and they work for a man named The Commodore. When the story begins, they've just received a new job. They're to track down a prospector named Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed) who has apparently stolen from their boss. The Sisters Brothers are a few days out, so an intelligent detective named John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal) has been tasked with capturing and holding the prospector until the hitmen arrive to do the dirty work…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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