“All happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.” If only Tolstoy had known what he was getting us all into with that one. I’m not sure how many narratives tag-lined “the ties that bind” or “familial bonds,” “complications of the family dynamic” or “blood is thicker than water” the cinematic canon can possibly hold, but we have to be getting towards carrying capacity. Sister (L’enfant d’en haut), the fourth feature film from French-Swiss director Ursula Meier, is another such film, centered around a pair of siblings who are struggling to survive in a seeming-wasteland.
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