Set in France, made in Bulgaria, Ursula Meier's previous movie, Home, was a nightmarish metaphor for the horrors of the modern world in the form of a fable about a family of happy, rural eccentrics whose idyllic life is destroyed by the construction of a motorway. Sister is a realistic tale about the sweet-natured 12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein), living in a ski resort in the Swiss Alps and driven into a life of petty crime to support his feckless elder sister (Léa Seydoux) and retain her affections. His thin but steady income derives from stealing skiing equipment from the rich and selling it directly to the less well-off or through a crooked but likable Scottish cook (Martin Compston). It comes over like a subtle short story and is well acted. There is, however, not much snow around, even at the height of the season, which may be a metaphor or simply a meteorological problem the film's makers can do little about.
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