Our Sisters-in-Law (2024)
- Original title
- Nos belles-sœurs
- Directed by
- René Richard Cyr
- Genre
- comedy film, musical film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1960s Montreal, a housewife wins a million trading stamps and holds a party to paste them into booklets. Her relatives and friends join in but bring their own petty jealousies.
livelysatiricalcomedicmusicaldomesticjealousperiodfemale-driven
What happens
Sisters and Neighbors! (French: Nos belles-sœurs) is a Canadian musical comedy film, directed by René Richard Cyr and released in 2024. Adapted from Michel Tremblay's influential stage play Les Belles-sœurs, the film stars Geneviève Schmidt as Germaine Lauzon, a 1960s housewife in the Le Plateau-Mont-Royal district of Montreal who wins a million trading stamps in a sweepstakes; needing to paste them all into booklets to exchange for prizes, she invites many of her family and friends over for a "stamping party", only to face the petty jealousies of many of the participants. The supporting cast includes Guylaine Tremblay, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Ariane Moffatt, Debbie Lynch-White, Véronic DiCaire, Valérie Blais, Pierrette Robitaille, Diane Lavallée, Véronique Le Flaguais, Jeanne Bellefeuille, Benoît Brière, Maxime Le Flaguais, Yves Jacques, Guillaume Cyr, Mégane Proulx, Steve Laplante, Isabelle Blais and Charles-Aubey Houde. The film has also screened in some markets under the English release title Our Sisters-in-Law, but its English title is officially Sisters and Neighbors! per Telefilm Canada. The film had a gala premiere on July 8, 2024, before opening commercially on July 11. It was an immediate hit, surpassing the $1 million benchmark for box office success in the Quebec market within one week of its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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