January 30, 2021
The Washington Post – In the absorbing domestic drama
My Little Sister, Nina Hoss plays Lisa, a Berlin playwright, wife and mother who is trying to save her brother’s life. Sven (Lars Eidinger) is a renowned theatre actor best known for his 300-plus renditions of
Hamlet. As the movie opens, he is suffering from cancer and Lisa has just donated bone marrow for a transplant.
To continue to be or to cease being is just one question animating this elegantly constructed meditation on family, identity, filial boundaries and ethical obligation. Written and directed by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond with superb control and insight,
My Little Sister Movie Review
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Directors: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Writers: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond
Cast: Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus, Thomas Ostermeier, Linne-Lu Lungershausen, Noah Tscharland
Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 12/22/20
Opens: January 5, 2021
The song that Joan Baez made famous goes “Hard is the fortune of all womankind/ we’re always controlled, we’re always confined,/ And when we get married to end all our strife/ We’re slaves to our husbands for the rest of our lives.” Such is the focus of “My Little Sister,” directed and written by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, whose “The Little Bedroom” focuses on an older man who accepts the help of a woman, leading to a bond. They are not so far off thematically with their current offering, which finds Lisa (Nina Hoss) pausing her career as a playwright to care for her cancer-stricken twin brother Sven (Lars Eidinger) while at the same tim
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Photo: (Photo : Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) My Little Sister is Switzerland s entry for the International Oscars. It is written and directed by power duo Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond, whose own sibling-like relationship inspired the movie. The Grade A- Drama movie stars Nina Hoss, the main actress for whom the co-directors built the little sister character (Lisa). The movie is shown from the perspective of Sven, played by Lars Eidinger.
Talented Siblings Struggle with Their Careers Due to Illness
Lisa and Sven are gifted artists. Lisa is a playwright and novelist, while her older (by two minutes) fraternal twin, Sven, is a celebrated theater actor. But their creative careers are halted when Sven got hit by leukemia and needed a blood marrow transplant, which his twin willingly gave.