Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (2019) blends Crime elements. Top cast includes Adam Christensen, Basma Alsharif, and Ana Vaz. It draws from real-world events while keeping the focus on character stakes.

Actor: Adam Christensen

Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s adaptation, set almost a century later in contemporary Paris, deploys Stein’s script as a talismanic guide through a contemporary moment of comparable social and political unrest. An original soundtrack, written especially for the film by British composer Laurence Crane, responds to the repetition, duplication and duality at play in Stein’s script. Both a fictional thriller and an act of collective representation, Deux Soeurs proposes empathy and friendship as means to reckon with an increasingly turbulent present.