'Your Sister's Sister' a film review

'Your Sister's Sister' a film starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass. Directed by Lynn Shelton.



   "You just need some head space," Iris, played by Emily Blunt, tells Jack, played by Mark Duplass. Iris used to go out with Tom who's now dead. Tom was Jack's brother.
    After a wake for Tom, off goes Jack to Iris's family cabin. It's not far from Seattle in Puget Sound in the dead od finter. Now as allo f us westcoasters know, winter means rain not snow, and grey skies not cold blue ones.
    But Jack never gets to fell at home in this wintry house. For he finds out that Hannah, played by Rosemarie DeWitt, has crashed here too. Hannah is Iris's sister who's a vegan lesbia. Her seven year relationship has just ended.
    Soon Hannah and Jack make love which I find a bit strange. I've known quite a few lebians and they've made love to men, but not after coming out as gay. In any case   this lovemaking sets off a whole chain of events especially after Iris shows up. Lynn Shelton directs this film using actors's improvisations and lots and lots of dialogue. Some of it's well done. Some of it just sucks, as in the following.
    "You fucked my sister," Iris yells at Jack. "Oh my God!"
     All of this dialogue led me into a state of boredom. But the film does pick up steam in its last 20 minutes or so. Still, there is one plus to this flick. Shelton's films usually take place in a world which many of us know, namely the Pacific Northwest.
      Grey skies, massive grey waters and towering evergreens backstop this film about thirty somethings. How nice to see a movie that takes place in your backyard instead of New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, or for that matter Toronto.
    But that was the major plus of this film. The interactions between Iris, Mark and Hannah weren't dynamic enough for me.