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| ACTORS: | Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Brian De Palma |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 27 March, 1973 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion Collection |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Horror |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 715515011020 |
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Customer Reviews of Sisters - Criterion Collection
De Palma's first Hitchcockian thriller SISTERS was director Brian De Palma's first venture into Hitchcock territory, borrowing from REAR WINDOW (a movie he was to later revisit in BODY DOUBLE- De Palma's last great film).
The movie centres around Danielle and Dominique Blanchion, siamese twins separated at birth (both played by Margot Kidder). The pair are like Jekyll and Hyde; Danielle sweet, kind and pretty; Dominique a raving psychopathic lunatic.
Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) is a newspaper reporter who witnesses Dominique (or is it Danielle?) brutally murder a male visitor by repeatedly stabbing him, he manages to write HELP on the window in his own blood before he expires, one of DePalma's scariest scenes next to CARRIE's final shot and SCARFACE's chainsaw torture sequence. Part murder mystery and part psychological horror, this movie will keep you guessing from beginning to end and is almost unbearably intense. SISTERS features one of composer Bernard Hermann's finest scores since PSYCHO. SISTERS is one of the last movies he worked on before his death. Highly recommended, especially for those who only remember Kidder from the SUPERMAN movies. Plenty of twists and chills. I may even be messing with the heads of people who read this review. Heh heh heh.
Brian De Palma's first real success is a knockout.
Brian De Palma has always been one of Hollywood's great imitators. He's the same type of filmmaker as Tarantino: he's seen all the movies and simply cannot resist paying homage to his favorite films whenever he gets the chance (ie. The Odessa Steps sequence from 'The Battleship Potemkin' finds it's way into 'The Untouchables'). Here, De Palma begins a string of Hitchcockian susense films with 'Sisters', a powerfully disturbing look at the extreme bond between a set of siamese twin sisters (played by Margot Kidder in her pre-Superman days). De Palma seems so assured in his direction through-out the film, using flashy jump cuts, eerie montages and flashbacks, and (in simply one of the most amazing sequences ever captured on film) he utilizes the split-screen technique first used to great impact in Michael Wadleigh's "Woodstock" to create two unique viewpoints of a murder. A murder which sparks the film and sets it down it's path. A tabloid reporter named Grace (played by Jennifer Salt) witnesses the murder of a young black man by Dominique (the evil twin) from her window. When she brings the police to the scene of the crime, she meets Danielle (the normal twin) but finds no body... and no Dominique. Soon she sets out to find the truth and expose the murderer. The film is charged with voyeurism, and De Palma carries us along swiftly and adeptly. Bernard Herrmann's score and Gregory Sandor's excellent cinemotography add to what is already a chilling tale of identity and madness, where nothing is what it seems and a simple kiss can be deadly. Much thanks goes to Criterion for resurrecting this long lost classic and restoring it to pristine condition. A great film for fans of the bizarre.
As racist as a Stephen King Short Story from the seventies
This movie is the most balsy opaquely racist movie I've ever seen. But I'll get to that in a moment.
Margot Kidder is a bombshell in this movie. Every sinew, every muscle, every handful of glandular greatness, every strand of beautiful raven black hair on her Canadian brow is perfectly structured to reveal an untapped sex-goddess in her prime (25). Her French Accent is positevly genius and to die for along with the scenes where she is using her allure to distract the cops from growing wise to her homicide. What, pray tell, happened to Margot Kidder in the five years from Sisters to Superman. Her perfect mouth becomes somehow gaunt and the fortifying keratin tissue around her lips fades in an unattractive way. I cannot place exactly what it is, but something happened to Margot in those five years which took away much of her blossoming beauty.
But I digress. The reason this movie is racist is because when broken down it shows how a group of white people conspire together to kill a healthy, young, law-abiding, successful black man and don't get caught. They suffer no repercussions. Thus the subtext of the film acts to assert racist propaganda disguised as a thriller/horror picture.
But read any Stephen King short story in the mid seventies and you'll get the same thing. Apparently brian and stephen didn't think black people would ever attain the education or affluence to see their movies/read their stories.