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Your Sister's Sister2011 | 90 min | R | 1.78:1
“Your Sister’s Sister” comes packaged in familiar wrapping, employing the loose improvisational techniques writer/director Lynn Shelton has favored throughout her career, last seen on the screen in the 2009 charmer, “Humpday.” Elevating her technical prowess and developing an ease with performers, Shelton hits an oddly touching note with her latest production, which machetes through dense emotional woods to grasp an appropriate balance between discomfort and disarming. It’s a funny, exposed picture that acts as a calamine lotion to the filmmaker’s itches, showing maturation that I hope carries Shelton to an exciting and insightful creative career behind the camera. 
After the death of his brother, Jack (Mark Duplass) has spent the last year of his life in a tailspin, unable to shake his grief. Sensing a need for her dear friend to get away from the world, Iris (Emily Blunt) offers Jack her empty family cabin for the week, hoping some time off the grid will clear his head. Arriving late at night, Jack is startled to find Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), Iris’s beloved half-sister, already on the premises. Cautiously permitting Jack a bed for the night, the two bond over booze and confessions, with Hannah sharing her tale of woe, ditching a seven-year lesbian relationship that left her miserable and childless. When drunken flirtations turn into a few embarrassing moments of intimacy, the couple attempts to downplay their mistake when Iris drops by for a surprise visit the next day, thrilled to use her sibling and best friend as receptacles for her secrets and veiled desires. What makes “Your Sister’s Sister” work so well is its observational qualities, brought out by Shelton through an obsessive need shared by her characters to communicate. It’s talky picture, utterly dependent on verbal exchanges to create the necessary flow of life, and this chatterbox atmosphere takes a few moments to get used to, especially for someone unaware of Shelton’s filmography or the work of her star, Duplass, who’s also made his mark in the same subgenre co-directing movies like “Cyrus” and “Jeff, Who Lives at Home.” There’s a stasis to Shelton’s method that can maddening, but those able to embrace the extended conversations will be rewarded with a depth of personality in few overt moves, helping to accentuate the plot’s deceptive simplicity. “Your Sister’s Sister” introduces itself with a sitcom premise, only to shatter the illusion of one-dimensionality by drilling into personal concern so successfully. 
As to be expected with a dialogue-heavy viewing experience, “Your Sister’s Sister” is guided exceptionally by the three leads, each bringing their own curveball to the material, displaying a riveting defenselessness that keeps the experience raw enough to work. Blunt, DeWitt, and Duplass bring an offering of pain to the screen that roots the characters in reality, with Jack still processing his brother’s death, Hannah working through a brutal break-up, and Iris confronted with feelings for Jack she’s been repressing for the last year, afraid to follow her heart to a man who’s clearly not in his right mind. The trio is harmonious, skillful with banter that frequently crashes into professions of desire, creating a dance of burgeoning sincerity that keeps the viewer guessing where Shelton is ultimately planning to take the woodsy week (lush cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke aims to mute most HD habits that typically swarm a project like this) once feelings are poured in full. 
The last act of “Your Sister’s Sister” doesn’t provide the escalation of panic hoped for, electing a grave finale that erases Shelton’s effective comedic touch, lending the feature much needed laughs in the early going. While the severity of the ending doesn’t satisfy, it’s an understandable turn of tone from a filmmaker clearly in love with her characters and the actors embodying their idiosyncrasies. The plot promises a mildly madcap movie, yet “Your Sister’s Sister” is perfectly fine somewhere between the humor of discomfort and that brutality of the truth, sustaining its feel for family and the bond between loved ones with sure feel for splattery screen communication. Starring: Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass, Mike Birbiglia Director: Lynn Shelton » See full cast & crew |
 
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