Sisters (De Palma, 1972): Rio Cinema, 11.30pm
This double-bill, part of the Rio Forever season at the cinema, is a Category H Film Club presentation, and also includes the 1994 film Almost Dead.
Try not to miss this ultra-rare screening of a key early Brian De Palma film which the late, great critic Robin Wood described as “one of the key American films of the 1970s”.
After ten years and a number of ambitious works (commercially successful and critically controversial) such as Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out, Sisters arguably remains Brian De Palma's most completely satisfying film. Like Dressed to Kill, it is an elaborate variation on Psycho; unlike
it, its attachment to the feminine viewpoint is much less compromised.
Like all De Palma's films, it invites a psychoanalytic reading (‘the
wound' as symbolic castration). Few Hollywood films (and perhaps no
other horror film) have explored so rigorously the oppression of women
under patriarchy and its appalling consequences for both sexes.
Robin Wood
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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