On Your Sister's Sister

Your Sister’s Sister is a low budget American independent film with a very manufactured premise that is pulled off without pretension. The dialogue may occasionally be melodramatic, but the performances are affecting and low key. It is telling that the most ‘Hollywood’ of the three actors, Emily Blunt, fits in to the mixture less well than the other two. The characters and the beautifully shot landscape engage throughout, right up until the end, which feels far more out of touch with the rest of the film. There is some weight to the cut-to-black ending that leaves string untied, but it should be used only when appropriate to the narrative. In Your Sister’s Sister it isn’t appropriate and you leave the film feeling a little cheated for the investment given for the past ninety minutes.