Thursday Movie Picks: Sibling Relationships (Biologically Related)

This Thursday is the last Thursday Movie Picks of the month, and with this being a year-long event, there’s still plenty of time to join! As on last Thursdays, it’s a family related theme, with this week all about sibling relationships! There are a ton of movies that revolve around siblings. Here are my picks this week:

Real life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac play siblings in Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort. The movie takes place in a span of days with the siblings looking for love and wanting to leave Rochefort in order to pursue their dreams. They don't do much sibling bonding in this film, but they do tend to do things together. The movie is quite charming and I loved their style. There’s also a lot of singing and dancing that takes place, and it was quite vibrant. 

When Darkness Falls is an anthology regarding courage to fight, especially in the face of danger. A segment of this was about an Armenian family living in Sweden, its story told in the eyes of Leyla. Leyla has many siblings, but was closest to her sister Nina. Her story starts when her family had enough of Nina’s nonsense and rebellion, citing that she is disgracing her family. Their segment tackles honor killing and going through further details would spoil their entire segment. It’s the first time I’ve seen a movie touch on the concept and it was interesting (since it’s a glimpse of a different culture) and scary at the same time. 

Adding to the practically all-female mix are sisters Elsa and Anna in Disney’s Frozen. The two sisters used to be close but because of Elsa’s powers, the two were separated, only coming in contact during Elsa’s coronation, and the events that ensued in the movie. I think this is the first Disney princess movie where sibling relationship comes to play and is one of the highlights of the movie.