Your Sister’s Sister
Written and Directed
By: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Mark
Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Emily Blunt
Director of Photography: Benjamin Kasulke, Editor: Nat
Sanders, Production Designer: John Lavin, Original Music: Vince Smith
Rosemarie
DeWitt doesn’t need dialogue. The unconsciously beautiful actress, perhaps best
recognized as the titular character of Rachel
Getting Married, seems to transcend scripts with her ability to shoot her
eyes across the room. She never goes for big dramatic scenes; her best moments
are the way she moves the hand across the table, or fixes her hair, or simply
moves in an unexpected way. Even after delivering the “big monologue” in Your Sister’s Sister, it’s the emotion
registered in her face that gave me chills.
And
given that Your Sister’s Sister is
mainly an improvised film (more on that later), it’s no wonder that DeWitt shines
throughout this amusing and often touching comedy that sadly shoots itself in
the foot (definitely more on that later). The film comes from Lynn Shelton,
last seen bringing us the odd and fascinatingly fresh Humpday, which followed two best friends who dared each other to
make a gay porn. Both Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister start off with
premises that sound not too far from the world of Judd Apatow, but as soon as
you enter them, you understand what makes her fresh.
