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If your love is split between more than one person, can you ever really call it true love? This is the essential question invoked in German director Dominik Graf’s “Beloved Sisters.” The romance explores the private life of famous German poet, writer and dramatist Friedrich Schiller and his enduring love triangle with the von Lengefeld ...
It’s not electrifying cinema, but the impassioned ménage à trois and its toll on an oath-sealed sisterly bond are palpably portrayed by its leads, particularly Hannah Herzsprung, whose Charlotte emerges the most emotionally realised character out of the three.
Jan 8, 2015 · At almost three hours, “Beloved Sisters,” written and directed by Dominik Graf, is a very nearly epic romance, one that approaches the idea of a ménage-a-trois as emblematic of a particular idealism on the part of its participants rather than a hotsy-totsy taboo-busting arrangement.
Over the course of almost three hours, Graf recounts the efforts of Schiller and the Lengefeld sisters to maintain the romantic love kindled during the summer they spend together not far from Weimar, the intellectual center of a country not yet born.
Feb 8, 2014 · Dominik Graf's period romance stars Hannah Herzsprung and Henriette Confurius as sisters who both fall in love with German writer Friedrich Schiller, played by Florian Stetter.
Sep 14, 2014 · Writer-director Dominik Graf’s Beloved Sisters opens with all the trappings of the boilerplate TV costume drama apparently intact: a tasteful piano/woodwind score, mildly over-the-top period details, tight bodices, and the requisite historical buildings, here scrubbed to an almost artificial shine. As the avuncular narrator informs us, it’s ...
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Jan 7, 2015 · Beloved Sisters, Germany’s official submission to the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category, is a beautifully photographed historical drama patiently chronicling a love triangle...
