Brother and Sister

Brother and Sister (2022)

Frère et Sœur

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.

Date of release
2022-05-20
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (123)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Drama
Director
Arnaud Desplechin

Casting

Interesting facts

Brother and Sister is a 2022 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin, co-written by Desplechin, Julie Peyr and Naila Guiguet. Starring Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud as estranged siblings who are forced to reunite after two decades following the death of their parents.

Production

On 12 April 2021, Arte France Cinéma announced they were backing Arnaud Desplechin's next film, Brother and Sister. Marking Desplechin's third collaboration with Marion Cotillard after 1996's My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument and 2016's Ismael's Ghosts, and his second collaboration with Melvil Poupaud after 2008's A Christmas Tale. Golshifteh Farahani was announced in the cast on 16 January 2022. Grégoire Hetzel composed the score.

The film is a co-production between Why Not Productions and Arte France Cinéma.

Filming took place in Paris in October 2021, and in Lille and Roubaix in France between November and December 2021.

In order to create their characters' tumultuous relationship, Marion Cotillard said she felt "a strange need" to remain distant from Melvil Poupaud on set, something she had never felt before, but she felt it was necessary for this film to remain at a distance and not become too close to him. At the end of the shoot, Cotillard explained to Poupaud why she avoided him and apologized.

The first image of the film featuring Marion Cotillard was unveiled on 16 April 2022.

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