You Can't Stay 'Cause You Been Somewhere Else: Family Relationships in Films

At Close Range, in the category of extremely fucked-up

Watched that for the first time a few months ago; that's a good one.

I didn't care much for Albert Brooks's Mother when it came out--inflated expectations, possibly--but that might be an obvious inclusion.

Tetro, brother-brother

prob recency bias but the best brother-brother narratives that immed come to mind are both shows:

-Beef
-I Know This Much is True

I've definitely seen some of the permutations done really well in TV shows: Six Feet Under might have aced all seven (Nate Sr. didn't have a lot of interaction with his kids, being dead and all, but what there was was excellent; for sister-sister, you had Ruth and Sarah).

Dreamin' Wild (the Donnie and Joe Emerson film) somewhat disjointed and morose for the first hour, but I still liked it up till their big reunion showcase in Seattle--lost its way after that, I thought. I'll post about here instead of on their thread; it's probably best appreciated as a pretty good brother film.

Aftersun - the sense of dread / imminent threat affected my wife more than me. Under Pressure though, omg. An incredible and unexpected transformation of something so familiar, beloved, and uplifting (despite the lyrics) into something unfamiliar and disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGy2xrY-x7I

I should accept the mystery but I'm going to watch the Aftersun Explained video...

I thought I might have mentioned The Virgin Suicides itt before but apparently not? Which is strange as I’ve watched it with my own sisters several times.

Obviously it’s filmed from mainly an external POV to the sisters but you do get some internal dialogue in the form of Cecilia’s diary entries. There’s a bit in one of her voiceovers where she says “My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair,” and we would always talk about our theories about which sister that was (majority opinion was Mary). Film depicts the twisting and perversion of normal sister relationships - the sisters teasing and having impenetrable injokes with each other was very familiar to me, being locked in the house by my parents less so.

Cecilia’s observations about her sisters that come through the veil of familiarity and exasperation where you know someone well enough to know them almost as well as you know yourself - otm.

I'd say that American Fiction makes its handful of brother-sister and brother-brother scenes really count.