I have to admit that I had scant expectations about THE SISTERS BROTHERS, in spite of the stellar cast and the excellent Jacques Audiard as director.
Well, I enjoyed it very much. Reilly and Phoenix post commanding performances, in contrast with Jake Gyllenhaal's minor and rather meaningless part, Audiard's direction is extremely competent, and even the musical soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful and strangely fitting, given its modernity.
The script is also quite gripping though, as indicated above, Gyllenhaal's role could have been removed and would not have been missed. Riz Ahmed's part is more substantial, but I could not help thinking that there must been very few Asian Indians in the old West of the 1850s, and his presence is rather distracting, especially a large number of close-ups of him, which seem irrelevant at best.
Well, I enjoyed it very much. Reilly and Phoenix post commanding performances, in contrast with Jake Gyllenhaal's minor and rather meaningless part, Audiard's direction is extremely competent, and even the musical soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful and strangely fitting, given its modernity.
The script is also quite gripping though, as indicated above, Gyllenhaal's role could have been removed and would not have been missed. Riz Ahmed's part is more substantial, but I could not help thinking that there must been very few Asian Indians in the old West of the 1850s, and his presence is rather distracting, especially a large number of close-ups of him, which seem irrelevant at best.