Writer-director Lynn Shelton is diabolical in her devising of predicaments that will make her characters squirm. You almost resent her for putting you through the experience of watching, except that she mines deep emotional reservoirs and comes out with observations about human nature that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible…
That sort of uncomfortable mishmash is appropriate, for this is mostly what Your Sister’s Sister is about: our desire for family, however unconventional. There are allusions throughout to ways that each of these characters have had their respective families torn apart. Now, in this cabin, on this island, they’re fumbling about trying to construct one of their own…
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