THE SISTERS BROTHERS is an example of how an artists previous work, when outside the English language and the American system, affects their future projects. Jacques Audiard had directed THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, A PROPHET and the Palme D’or winning DHEEPAN. These films were critically accalimed and adulated by those in the cine criticism world. However, when it came the time to absorb his first American film, it seems these people overwhelmingly ignored it. THE SISTERS BROTHERS, a modern western that disappeared from the eye of the mainstream, is oddly and arguably his best film.

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly star as the Sisters brothers, a pair of Old West bounty hunters, who work for The Commodore (Rutger Hauer), a baron of ill repute. He offers them a simple mission. They are to track down and kill a man by the name of Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed). Why, they dont ask. But how, they do. A man named John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal)is the agent. A private detective with a touch of the artist and a close ally it seems to Warm. As the Sisters Brothers follow the trial left behind by Morris, they are beset by issues. The arduous journey takes them across a region covering Oregon to California, hills and woods to towns and mining villages. They find it hard to escape the emptiness of the quest and the basic humanity that they are offered by their prize. Two men who have become friends and one with a secret that could change the world.

THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a thing of beauty. Built on the Western formulas many are familiar with, but refreshing elements of it, becoming a pyschological Western (as an extra in the set perfectly positions it) that is compelling and darkly comedic. Though this set is lite on much extra weight, it does have a superbly astute commentary on Westerns from C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke. Both extrapolate the elemental forces of the Western but conclude with a summation of how this is compelling its own work. The other high point is it having a stunning 2160p 4K UHD master to reveal in. This bolsters DOP Audiard collaborator Benoît Debie work, refining his darker echos and his lovely use of light, white and blight. Stunning. Stunning and stunning.

Product Features

• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by authors and critics C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
• Barry Forshaw on The Sisters Brothers, a brand new video essay by film critic Barry Forshaw on The Sisters Brothers and the psychological Western genre
• His Own Private Wild West, archival hour-long making-of documentary featuring interviews with many cast and crew members including director Jacques Audiard, actor John C. Reilly, cinematographer Benoît Debie, Production designer Michel Barthélémy, sound designer Brigitte Taillandier and Patrick DeWitt, author of the novel The Sisters Brothers
• Animated reviews
• Trailers
• Short promotional featurettes
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
• Double-sided fold-out “Wanted” poster
• Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by film critic Howard Hughes, academic and Audiard expert Gemma King and original production notes

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