Hermanas

Director Julia Solomonof has shown viewers that she can present a work that has an assured pace of a structured thriller while presenting a film that is basically a character study of two sisters reacting differently under the Argentinan dictatorship and reign of terror in 1970. She has learned the craft from working with Walter Salles on "The motorcycle diaries" as an assistant director.

I saw this Spanish/Argentinan/Brazilian co-production at the recently concluded Dubai International Film Festival and was bowled over by the competence of the director and the performances of the actors especially that of the young boy interacting with his aunt.

The film reminded me in many ways of Hungarian director Zoltan Fabri's "The Fifth Seal", a film set in Hungary under Nazi occupation, where friends crack under fear and pressure. "Hermanas" looks at how an individual can place priorities on saving a near one from torture, while others look at the moral responsibility beyond the immediate kith and kin. The film leaves you disturbed: does the family matter more than a larger community? Even philosophers will find this disturbing to answer--which is why the late Fabri related the question to the opening of the Fifth Seal in the Book of Revelations.

Julia Solomonof has proved her mettle. Though I am physically far removed from Argentina, Spain or Brazil, I will watch out for her next directorial effort with anticipation.

Acting, cinematography, screenplay, etc. Are all excellent. Really great film.

This movie has got to be the best movie from 2005, even going as far as surpassing corpse bride, this movie is what inspired my cult, the Hermanas cult is still going strong btw. I watched this movie while my dad was giving birth my mom helped with the C-section I plan to conceive my child while watching this movie, the reason I love this movie so much is because Pedro pascal was in it, smash smash smash, perhaps captSC should give it another watch after 15 years period exclamation point comma dash parenthesis Pedro pascal smash#iwshdff. I got to put more words so I'm just gonna talk about how hot, nvm I just surpassed it.

I had to watch this movie for Spanish 101. I was expecting something bad, since I am slightly biased against foreign films (Pan's Labyrinth being the one exception), but I was blown the wrong way.

The acting is bad, the characters, while in sympathetic situations, aren't that sympathetic themselves, and I found myself not really caring about any of it. The plot leaves out a lot of story, and even tantalizes us with a possible side plot that may wake the audience from their stupor, but drop it as well.

The one bright spot of this atrocious film is the child of one of the sisters.

Without the child, this would be 1/10. Only watch if you are assigned to watch it for a class. You are better off reading a book on the Ar gentian coup than watching this.

Stay away. Don't say I didn't warn you.

This is a great movie. It deals with the strained relationship between two sisters. One is a politically active student in 1975, a member of the Argentine leftist-militant group the Montoñeros and the other is more concerned about starting a normal family life. When the military dictatorship begins in 1976, the academic sister is nearly captured by the government and has to flee abroad, while the other sister moves to Texas with her husband. The movie takes place in a flashback, as the two sisters meet for the first time in 8 years, in 1984, while the exiled one visits her sister in Texas, looking for a boyfriend who was taken captive by the dictatorship. The Texas sister wants to lead as normal life as possible, while the other wants to find answers.