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| A scene from Beloved Sisters. |
By Miranda Inganni
Charlotte von Lengefeld (Henriette Confurius) and her equally attractive older (and married) sister, Caroline (Hannah Herzsprung), have an agreement to share everything they have with each other. Enter the German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller (Florian Stetter), a man who both women desire and, subsequently, share.
While there is an undeniable bond between sisters (and often their mother as well), this bond is difficult to accept at facade value – even if this episode is based on a potentially true story. What we do know is that in real life, Charlotte became Schiller’s wife and Caroline his biographer. But in this version, they clearly mean a lot more to each other than categories can imply.
Written and directed by Dominik Graf, German's Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film, Beloved Sisters is period porn – lush and brightly hued. It is like a PBS miniseries (and might be better suited for such a platform). All three leading ladies (Confurius, Herzsprung and Claudia Messner as their mother) turn in lovely, nuanced performances as the three ladies that steer the ship of Schiller’s life. Stetter is charming as the flawed Schiller and there is chemistry betwixt the three. The soundtrack (Sven Rossenbach and Florian van Volxem) is annoying drivel, but the costumes (Barnara Grupp) and production design (Claus Jürgen Pfeiffer) are fantastic.
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