Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time ever Charlie had a girl friend. Actually the mystery girl was just a friend of the family, Angela Rau, 27, an Australian who was in fact being escorted by Anthony Tryon, 26, son of Lord Tryon, keeper of the privy purse. The Prince was still squiring his sister Princess Anne...
...Sister, My Love is a not entirely sunny picture of life in medieval Sweden. Brothers seduce sisters; sisters marry out of spite. Powerful aristocrats intimidate less powerful ones, and all aristocrats intimidate the peasantry. Clergymen go wenching...
...Sjoman doesn't train the camera on politics or philosophical discussion or four poster beds steadily enough. He gets distracted. He'll mention retribution, then pass on; he'll hover around brother kissing sister on the mouth and move away. That's his formula: constant titillation without any satisfaction...
...cheats even in the love scenes that Playboy found so frank and the Boston police so objectionable. The scenes have superficial honesty because the bodies are naked. But that's it. They don't reveal how the brother's relationship with his whores differs from his relationship with his sister. And if there isn't any difference, if in moment of supposed intimacy people are still isolated, Sjoman doesn't make it clear...
...last straw is the cast. Bibi Anderson (the sister) and Per Oscarsson (the brother) tease you for 50-odd minutes. She's so beautiful, he's so wolfish, you expect that the wages of sin will be excitement. But Sjoman doesn't keep them on screen long enough to produce a stir. At the end he removes them completely in favor of a screaming baby. Leave early...