In Marianne and Julianne, a new age German film the two sisters almost reverse roles from that of childhood. As a child Julianne was a daddy's girl and Marianne was more of a tomboy who embarrased her father by not wearing dresses. As the girls get older, they both work for women's rights however in two different ways. Marianne is a Journalist for a woman's magazine and Julianne was a radicalist who performed acts of terrorism and was ultimately sentenced to jail. Despite their differences Marianne ultimately looses her boyfriend of ten years to dedicate herself to visiting her sister in jail and then eventually on proving that she was in fact murdered and that she hadn't commited suicide. Marianne, although against everything Julianne stood for, put everything aside for the sole reason that they were sisters. I don't know how beliveable it is that Marianne decides to continue the cause after her sister's death. The film was a little hard to follow and at times shocking.
On the otherhand, there is Eve's Bayou a great film with numerous themes, one being that of sisterhood as well. In the film, the father Louis played by Ssamuel L Jackson was unfaithful to his wife and his daughter Eve witnessed the whole thing. When Eve is shook up about the night's events she confides in her sister who trys to tell her little sister she didn't see what she thought she saw. The older sister is protecting her father. Later in the film when the father is never home and is off with "patients" it is apparent that he is having an affair. One day the older sister sneeks out and gets a makeover and that night she waited up for her father and when he came home drunk she gave him a back rub and then kissed him, not as a girl, but as a women. When her father realizes he slaps her and embarassed she goes through a depression and decides to leave the house and as she is about to leave she confides to her little sister that their father tried to take advantage of her, making her father out to be a vilian. Eve states that she will kill him for hurting her and her sister makes her promise not to tell anyone. Once her sister leaves Eve seeks out a voodo witch to kill her father and pays $20. After her father's death Eve finds a letter that states her sister made the move onto the father and not as she had told her. Both girls feel guilty about their father's death, thinking that they are to blame. The older sister for lying and for Eve's voodo, when the reality was that the father's lover's husband shot him for sleeping with his wife. The long shot at the end of the film was fantastic as it showed that through everything, the bond between sisters is strong.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119080/
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