SYNOPSIS
Sister. Ursula Meier follows up her debut feature Home with an aching, erudite drama about a 12-year-old boy who lives with his sister in an industrial valley at the base of a luxury ski resort in Switzerland. Simon (a riveting performance from Kacey Mottet Klein) is a brazen and clever thief who spends his days on the mountain snaffling gear from the wealthy tourists and reselling it down below. His sister (Léa Seydoux) is reckless and irresponsible, but her dependency on his enterprise gives Simon a sense of purpose. When Simon becomes fascinated by a woman on the slopes (Gillian Anderson), something shifts irrevocably and he is forced to confront his sister with the truth. The mountain setting is a breath-taking contrast to the suffocating intimacy of the cramped apartment the siblings share and this spatial tension is amplified by both Agnes Godard’s (Beau Travail) ravishing cinematography and John Parish’s discordant score. Berlin Special Award winner.
