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Jan 8, 2015 · As lengthy and passionate as a drawn-out kiss, “Beloved Sisters” is a beautifully made romantic drama set in 18th century Germany that’s smart, sensual and emotionally resonant.
Apr 8, 2015 · To the upper crust of Rudolstadt, where the Lengefeld sisters and their widowed mother reside, poets are rock stars: when Goethe breaks off a relationship with Charlotte and Caroline’s mother,...
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 sisters.
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.
Oct 2, 2014 · This tale of a famous philosopher-poet-playwright and the two sisters who fell in love with him is the ultimate thinking person’s costume melodrama. It’s a romance set in what is now Germany, as Western Europe absorbs the fallout from the French Revolution and its reign of terror, and how those bloody events shaped the consciousness of ...
Jan 7, 2015 · Set on the cusp of both the Weimar Classicism literary movement and the French Revolution, Beloved Sisters posits a world in the midst of a socio-political sea change. The young, naive...
Feb 8, 2014 · Berlin Film Review: ‘Beloved Sisters’ The menage a trois between Friedrich Schiller, his wife and his sister-in-law makes for an exquisitely detailed, unusually brainy costume drama.
