Les Frères Soeur (2000)
Directed by Frédéric Jardin

Comedy
aka: The Sister Brothers

Film Synopsis

The Soeur brothers may not have invented cinema, but that doesn't mean they can't have a go at re-inventing it.  Unfortunately, they have concocted a script that no one will touch with a bargepole - one that is thicker than Tolstoy's War and Peace, more convoluted than Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and only slightly less coherent than a Dadaist manifesto.  Yet they persist, gate-crashing parties where they have no place to be in the hope of finding a kindly backer.  In the end they have no choice but to resort to skulduggery - blackmailing a producer and kidnapping a scriptwriter.  The Soeur brothers are a pair of undiscovered geniuses, and it looks as if they will stay that way...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Frédéric Jardin
  • Script: Edouard Baer, Frédéric Jardin, Fabrice Roger-Lacan
  • Cinematographer: Laurent Machuel
  • Music: Nicolas Errèra, Yussef Lateef
  • Cast: José Garcia (Charlie Soeur), Denis Podalydès (Jacques Soeur), Jackie Berroyer (Francis France), Edouard Baer (Blaise), Alexandra London (Julie), Jean-François Stévenin (Darius), Daniel Emilfork (André), Isabelle Nanty (Marion), François Rollin (Jean-Louis), Alexia Stresi (Sandrine), Anthony Garcia (Simon), Emmanuelle Lepoutre (Chloë), Bernard Verley (James), Sylvie Joly (Rolande), Adrien de Van (Ghislain de Tourette), Pierre Aussedat (Thibault de Tourette), Blanche Raynal (Madame de Tourette), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (Comique cabaret), Marina de Van (Prostituée SM), Pierre-François Martin-Laval (Dealer)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Aka: The Sister Brothers

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