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Die Brüder und Meuchelmörder Charlie und Eli Sisters jagen in dieser filmischen Adaption des Romans von Patrick DeWitt im Oregon des Jahres dem Goldsucher Hermann Kermit Warm hinterher. Ihre Verfolgungsjagd führt sie dabei über Meilen. The Sisters Brothers ist ein mehrfach ausgezeichneter Western von Jacques Audiard, der am 2. September im Wettbewerb der Filmfestspiele von Venedig. Oregon, Sie sind berüchtigt, die Sisters Brothers. Eli und Charlie, der eine ruhig und überlegt, der andere ein kampflustiger Trinker. Skrupellose. Oregon, The Sister Brothers, das sind Eli (John C. Reilly) und Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) Sisters, zwei berühmt-berüchtigte Handlanger des Commodore. The Sisters Brothers ein Film von Jacques Audiard mit John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix. Inhaltsangabe: Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed) soll sterben. "The Sisters Brothers": Männer, die sich auch mal die Zähne putzen. Die Männer im Film des französischen Regisseurs Jacques Audiard. Lagerfeuergespräche, Verfolgungen, Schießereien: "The Sisters Brothers" mit Joaquin Phoenix und John C. Reilly hat alles, was ein Western.
„The Sisters Brothers“ ist eine grandiose Charakterstudie mit (von links) Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, Jake Gyllenhaal und John C. Reilly. camera zwo - das arthouse kino - Futterstraße , Saarbrücken: The Sisters Brothers | Aktuelles Kinoprogramm, Kino, Film- und Kino-Infos. Hermann Kermit Warm soll sterben. Auftraggeber hinter diesem geplanten Mord ist der mysteriöse wie mächtige Mann, der nur unter dem Namen 'Der. Planwidrig entsteht zwischen Morris und Warm eine Freundschaft, vielleicht auch mehr. Das Märchen der Märchen. Wie es halt so ist im Wilden Westen. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Oregon, The Sisters Brothers. Suche starten Icon: Suche. Sisters Brothers Menu de navigation Video
2 Funky 2 - Brothers And SistersIn fact, this book is brilliant. But truly, this book deserves any praise it receives. View all 21 comments. Apr 11, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: canadian , 21th-century , fiction , literature , historical , novels.
In , Eli and Charlie Sisters, a pair of assassins of minor repute, are hired by a wealthy businessman known only as "the Commodore" to travel from Oregon City to California in order to murder a gold rush prospector named Hermann Kermit Warm, who is described to them as a "thief".
Hard-nosed, plainspoken Charlie, more impulsive and aggressive than his younger brother Eli, has a fondness for binge drinking and appears remorseless about the crimes he commits.
Spoilers warning Eli, contemplative and often sentimental, admires and looks up to Charlie but finds himself at odds with Charlie's apparent nonchalance about the directions their lives are taking.
The brothers bicker constantly about money, the job, their horses, and each other's personalities. As they ride south, Eli and Charlie encounter many strange characters and endure a series of mishaps and adventures.
Eli is first bitten by a spider and then must have a tooth removed, for which he is given morphine to numb the pain; his horse is attacked by a grizzly bear but survives despite a serious eye injury.
Charlie frequently gets drunk and is too sick to ride the following morning, slowing their progress to California, which frustrates Eli.
The pair hears rumors on the trail about a female bear with a uniquely red-colored pelt, for which a hefty reward has been offered by a man named Mayfield.
Entering California, the brothers unexpectedly spot the bear and Charlie kills it, and they decide to bring it to Mayfield, who runs an inn in a town named after him.
After being paid, Charlie insists they stay a night in Mayfield's hotel; Eli sleeps with the hotel's bookkeeper. Waking the next morning, they discover the red bear pelt is missing and suspect Mayfield will accuse them of stealing it.
The brothers sneak to the stable to retrieve their horses and flee town, but a group of surly fur trappers who work for Mayfield stop them and demand they return the cash they were paid for the pelt.
Charlie and Eli simultaneously dispatch these enemies with well-placed gunshots, and Charlie feels compelled to kill an innocent stable boy to eliminate eyewitnesses.
Returning to the hotel, they find that Mayfield has fled. The brothers steal his enormous cache of gold bullion and hide it behind the hotel's stove for safekeeping while they leave to finish their business with Hermann Warm.
Eli and Charlie reach San Francisco and seek out an acquaintance named Morris, whom the Commodore had instructed to keep track of Warm until the Sisters brothers arrived.
Morris has disappeared, though, and the brothers must coerce the proprietor of his hotel to hand over Morris' journal.
The journal reveals that Morris was approached by Warm, who has concocted an ingenious chemical formula that causes gold to glow brilliantly, making it highly useful for indicating the location of placer deposits in riverbeds.
Warm demonstrated his formula to Morris and offered him a partnership in it, and the two have since teamed up to travel to the "River of Light", where they hope to test large quantities of it.
Eli and Charlie realize then that the Commodore has duped them: Warm is not a thief but had simply refused to share his formula with the Commodore.
Though Charlie wants to see the job done as intended, Eli hesitates to murder an innocent man, but they eventually agree to ride out to Warm's claim and finish the job, which Eli vows will be his last for the Commodore.
View all 4 comments. Oct 17, Anmiryam rated it liked it. I wanted to love this book. It jumped off of my pile of shortlisted Booker Prize nominees and demanded to be read first.
In the course of their journey from Oregon to California, at the height of the gold rush I wanted to love this book. In the course of their journey from Oregon to California, at the height of the gold rush, they meet a panoply of misfits and losers who provide a steady stream of often humorous incidents that help to explicate the brother's relationship.
Add to this set-up, a narrative voice, provided by Eli, the younger of the two gunslinging brothers, that has a deadpan simplicity that is oddly appealing.
And, it is worth noting, it has the best cover I've seen in a long time. With so much going for it, why doesn't Patrick deWitt's novel deliver?
Ultimately it is a failure to integrate the disparate events into a cohesive plot or arc for character development. Things happen and some of them are funny, but they don't lay the groundwork for growth in Eli's character that the form demands.
It doesn't help that once the brothers find their target that the plot twist that leads to the climax of the book is singularly flat and generates no tension.
It also didn't help that there are historical incongruities particularly around the state of dentistry that are jarring and out-of-place, even in a story that in no way purports to be realist, realistic details would help to sustain the truth that can be found in absurdity.
Sep 27, Adina rated it really liked it Shelves: booker , canada , historical-fiction. Update on the movie! The appeal of the novel is in the voice of the narrator which could not be captured on the screen.
Review: Not your classic western novel. Great name, wonderful cover, lovely content, amazing storytelling. Shortlisted for the Booker prize I was watching a western comedy with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson when I thought that I should read a proper western novel at s Update on the movie!
I was watching a western comedy with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson when I thought that I should read a proper western novel at some point.
When I was little, I used to enjoy Karl May but that was the last time I immersed myself into this genre. That evening, I started to browse the only western I owned if I don't count the Gunslinger and I found myself in love with the author's voice right from the start.
The Sisters brothers are Eli and Charlie, 2 famous paid killers working for the Commodore. They are hired to find and kill a prospector in San Fransisco.
The novel presents their journey to California and their adventures while they are there. Eli and Charlie could not be more different from each other.
Charlie is bossy, impulsive, a bit of psychopath, loves to drink and does not hold too much respect for his brother.
Eli, on the other hand, is sensitive, loves his brother, cares for his horses, does not enjoy killing people uselessly and his dream is to settle down with a woman.
The story is told by Eli, and oh, it is such a beautiful voice. It was moved by his candid feelings and could not help but sympathise with Eli, despite him being a killer.
View all 17 comments. Jan 18, Peter rated it it was amazing Shelves: crime , favorites , literary-fiction , thriller.
Satirical The Sisters Brothers is an exceptional novel that is absorbing and delightfully original. The writing style is lyrical and the dialogue flows so effortlessly with its satirical interweaving of humour, brotherhood, loneliness, intrigue and murder.
The two Sisters brothers, Charlie and Eli are hitmen for the Commodore, who has contracted them to assassinate Hermann Kermit War Satirical The Sisters Brothers is an exceptional novel that is absorbing and delightfully original.
They are both remorseless killers but Eli wants to try new things and dreams of a different life, perhaps opening a store, settle down with a female - any female — such a sweet guy.
While they are both psychopaths, with a lack of emotional attachment, their witty and entertaining exchanges create significant empathy. There is nothing predictable about the storyline and we watch the two brothers wondering what encounter will happen next.
It was a joy to just lift this book, let the words flow and be captivated with a really engrossing story. The chapters are short and punchy, underpinning a good solid pace to the story.
I would highly recommend reading this book. View all 29 comments. Mar 14, Debra rated it really liked it. This was a strange, quirky and oddly captivating book that I simply could not put down.
Eli and Charlie Sisters are not only brothers, but they are assassins put to the task of killing Hermann Kermit Warm. It seems that Mr. Warm, who by all accounts is a likable fellow, has stolen something from the Commodore, the fearsome and loathsome employer of the Sisters brothers.
The year is ant the two brothers make their way through Oregon and California on the hunt for Mr.
Along the way they w This was a strange, quirky and oddly captivating book that I simply could not put down.
Along the way they will wet Charlie's taste for Whiskey, Eli will discover the joys of toothpaste, decide to go on a diet, and question what he wants out of life.
Both men will endure their own medical issues along the way. Not to mention the unmentionable cast of characters they will meet and Kill along the way.
This is an interesting book that at times is funny, gritty, repulsive, endearing yes, I said endearing , and violent.
In short, this book is a hoot! I probably would not have picked this book up if it weren't for my Goodreads friends reading and reviewing it.
This was unique but also rewarding. I imagine the Author laughing like a fool while writing this. I know I would have been! It's imaginative, unique and a western without really being a western huh?
It's peculiar and enjoyable! Don't take my word for it, read the book! See more of my reviews at www.
View all 15 comments. Aug 06, Dan Schwent rated it liked it Shelves: lendable , When the Commodore orders the Sisters brothers to kill Herman Kermit Warm and take his mysterious formula, they have no idea the series of misadventures they will endure in the undertaking.
I've been interested in this book forever and nabbed it on the cheap when it popped up on one of my ebook newsletter things.
It may have been that my expectations were too high but this didn't live up to the hype for me. I liked the characters of Eli and Charlie Sister, natural born killers in the old west.
T When the Commodore orders the Sisters brothers to kill Herman Kermit Warm and take his mysterious formula, they have no idea the series of misadventures they will endure in the undertaking.
They were funny at times and brutal at others. I also liked the overly-formal Western dialog with few contractions, much like the Coehn brothers version of True Grit.
I suspect the novel has the same style of dialog but I've yet to read it. The book is described as being a picaresque adventure, which it is. It's also not a very interesting one for long stretches at a time.
I loved the writing but I kept getting drowsy while reading it. I've never before been torn between my admiration for writing and my desire to toss a book back on the unread pile for something more interesting.
I did like it more than I thought it was bland, though. There were enough twists and reversals of fortune to keep me from drooling on my Kindle.
There were a few close calls, though. Three out of five stars. View all 9 comments. Dec 17, Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing.
My original review may still be missing If this historical FUN fiction I remember saying in my "lost review". It was the best 'dude' book I had read.
Great 'dude' book that any female will adore. I was 'liking' a new friends review on this book --and notice my review was missing in action Iris??
I loved this book --I thought it was a blast!! View all 20 comments. Jun 22, Paul Bryant rated it really liked it Shelves: novels , modern-western.
The Sisters Brothers is the son of True Grit , a funny, heartbreaking 5 star novel from Same genre — unconsciously-hilarious wild west memoir written in curious stiff slightly formal and stilted but purely beautiful language beginning at the beginning and driving the surprising narrative always forward without stopping to apologise to all the dead people and animals encountered en route.
At this point you may say that this thing has also been done recently and won a big bad Booker for itsel The Sisters Brothers is the son of True Grit , a funny, heartbreaking 5 star novel from At this point you may say that this thing has also been done recently and won a big bad Booker for itself - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey.
Yes, it is very similar, but Peter Carey over egged his pudding to a most nauseating level. You could not believe a word of it. Patrick DeWitt does not make this mistake.
But could they have made such a terrific error? No error, this is the story of two guns for hire whose surname is Sisters, and is narrated by the frankly fat one he goes on a diet around page 50 Eli Sisters.
They are already famous for shooting people and this is the story of how they came to change their ungodly lifestyle. All the way through Eli struggles with the horrible stuff these brothers find themselves doing.
He gets so mad at these people making him have to shoot them that he wants to shoot them. What a conundrum!
Horses, especially a wonky donkey of a horse called Tub, feature very prominently. Strong believers in animal rights and all vegans should be advised that there are more than a few scenes in here that are guaranteed to make all individual hairs on their body, should they have any, stand straight up perpendicularly.
Poor old Tub. And what happens to the beavers is most distressing too. What happened to the fifth star? Well, Eli Sisters is a compelling narrator all right but him and his brother are a tough sell.
And the ending, the one after the actual ending, was strange, like one of those unresolved chords they sometimes end a song with. So, 4. View all 18 comments.
Shelves: audio , western , library , This was an entertaining little western story. A collection of anecdotes chronicling the notorious Sisters Brothers as they journey West to complete a job in Gold Rush era California.
It has all the elements you might expect in a western — gunfights, crazy prospectors, horses, grimy locales, outlaws, snake oil salesmen, women of the night, etc.
I really enjoyed the beginning of the book. The dialogue was quic This was an entertaining little western story.
The dialogue was quick and witty. The story moved a long at a decent clip. Lots of different things were happening to keep me engaged.
Not that it got bad, it was just as if I was racing my horse down a good quality trail and then it suddenly started to pour rain and the path quickly became a sticky quagmire that required some extra effort to push through.
I would have liked to see it end at the same pace that it had begun. My favorite element of the story was the character building of the Sisters Brothers.
Each of them unique in their own way, but together, a force to be reckoned with. Eli: attempting to lose weight to impress the ladies and interested in new-fangled technology like tooth brushing.
Charlie the more ruthless and deadlier of the two — trying to maintain his badassness while dealing with alcoholism and the misadventures of his not quite so focused brother.
But, again, their reputation precedes them and, while we as the reader see the true, intricate nature of the brothers, when they walk into a bar and people find out that these are the infamous Sisters Brothers, the temperature drops, and people start diving behind the bar and out the window!
If you like westerns, give this one a try. While it has shades of other westerns I have read, it is definitely unique. View all 14 comments.
Aug 03, Joe Valdez rated it did not like it Shelves: western , abandoned. I was sitting in my car outside the Mission Viejo Public Library waiting for my friend Townes to come out with some books.
I had told him I was in a western frame of mind and to pick me up something published rather recently. Like what, Townes had said.
I did not go inside with Townes because there was a cute South African librarian working there and I wasn't happy about my looks at the moment.
Townes came back with four I was sitting in my car outside the Mission Viejo Public Library waiting for my friend Townes to come out with some books.
Townes came back with four books. These books were The Sisters Brothers for me and some Russian novelists for him.
Townes was critical of my choice being such a slim volume, associating page length with shallowness. But having finished two Larry McMurtry epics, I was ready for a terse, exciting western.
Not exciting as in stagecoach chases and such, but exciting in terms of storytelling or perhaps writing. I was recently surprised by how much I enjoyed Cormac McCarthy.
Now if you've read two paragraphs of this book report, are wondering where any of this is going, but still reading anyway, then The Sisters Brothers might be the book for you.
It is a western about two brothers who are hired killers. There is Charlie, who's been put in charge on a job to kill a miner run afoul with their powerful employer, the Commodore.
Then there's Eli, who narrates the story. Like me, Eli is a romantic who doesn't know how to get to the point. Eli tells about encountering people on the trail.
Charlie drinks a lot and is apt to shoot anyone who gives him what he thinks is a good reason. He also condescends to his brother.
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Retrieved 26 December Le Soir in French. Retrieved 12 January National Society of Film Critics. Retrieved 6 January When they finally track Morris and Warm to their camp along a remote river, Warm at first catches them off-guard, knowing they were sent to kill him.
But the prospectors do not retaliate, and Eli and Charlie likewise earn Warm's trust by defending the camp from a gang of curious bandits.
Soon the four men decide to join forces in the prospecting operation. Warm's gold-finding formula, however, proves severely caustic, and both Morris and Warm are already suffering burns to their skin from having exposed their legs to the chemical while wading in the contaminated river.
The four partners wait for nightfall to pour the formula into the river and collect as many illuminated gold fragments as possible before the glow fades away.
Charlie spills some of the raw formula on his shooting hand and finds it too painful to use, but the men manage to extract a fortune in gold from the riverbed.
Morris then falls into the river and Warm dives in to rescue him; both men are severely burned and die from exposure the following day. While the brothers wait for Warm to die so he can be given a proper burial, a party of Indians stumbles upon the camp and robs the men of their money and the gold they had collected.
Eli realizes that no one but Warm knew how to make the formula. The Sisters brothers slowly make their way back to Oregon City, stopping in Mayfield on the way, only to discover the entire town burned down and the gold bullion they had hidden there missing.
Mayfield's whores gang up on the brothers and rob them of their little remaining money and pistols. Charlie's burned hand is eventually amputated, and Eli nurses him back to health.
Profoundly distressed by the experience, Charlie's former confidence and fearlessness are now gone. Eli, too, is uncertain what to do with himself, but sets out first to break the endless cycle of killers hired by the Commodore by killing him instead.
He finds the Commodore soliloquizing in a bathtub in his mansion and drowns him. Now free of their life of crime, the brothers return to their mother's house, who welcomes them to stay.
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Joaquin Phoenix. Hauptseite Themenportale Zufälliger Artikel. Pfeil nach links Zurück zum Artikel Teilen Icon: teilen. Reilly in einer Art Hauptrolle angeführt, auf die dieser seine ganze Karriere lang gewartet habe.When I watched this movie, I had no idea about it. In fact, I did not recognize Jake until the last few minutes of the film.
To me, the movie was a bit overbaked. Their pistols looked more like Roman candles when fired at night--with long flames and sparks spewing from the barrels.
It took me a few minutes to appreciate what was happening. I really like Reilly. He's a very fine actor and one of the many, many producers of this movie.
Candidly, they all shined as actors. The storyline and plot were clothed in violence. Many of the scenes were raw and brutal. The more I watched of the film, the more I was eager to see what was coming next.
My greatest criticism of the film is the unrealistic verbiage used by the characters of the west in the s. The use of multisyllabic words of the time by the characters did not comport with the language of the day, that is, the level of sophistication of the English language far surpassed western reality.
Afterwards, I did learn that the movie earnings were far short of the budget and that is really too bad because it is a film worth viewing.
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Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. Though Charlie wants to see the job done as intended, Eli hesitates to murder an innocent man, but they eventually agree to ride out to Warm's claim and finish the job, which Eli vows will be his last for the Commodore.
View all 4 comments. Oct 17, Anmiryam rated it liked it. I wanted to love this book. It jumped off of my pile of shortlisted Booker Prize nominees and demanded to be read first.
In the course of their journey from Oregon to California, at the height of the gold rush I wanted to love this book.
In the course of their journey from Oregon to California, at the height of the gold rush, they meet a panoply of misfits and losers who provide a steady stream of often humorous incidents that help to explicate the brother's relationship.
Add to this set-up, a narrative voice, provided by Eli, the younger of the two gunslinging brothers, that has a deadpan simplicity that is oddly appealing.
And, it is worth noting, it has the best cover I've seen in a long time. With so much going for it, why doesn't Patrick deWitt's novel deliver? Ultimately it is a failure to integrate the disparate events into a cohesive plot or arc for character development.
Things happen and some of them are funny, but they don't lay the groundwork for growth in Eli's character that the form demands.
It doesn't help that once the brothers find their target that the plot twist that leads to the climax of the book is singularly flat and generates no tension.
It also didn't help that there are historical incongruities particularly around the state of dentistry that are jarring and out-of-place, even in a story that in no way purports to be realist, realistic details would help to sustain the truth that can be found in absurdity.
Sep 27, Adina rated it really liked it Shelves: booker , canada , historical-fiction. Update on the movie! The appeal of the novel is in the voice of the narrator which could not be captured on the screen.
Review: Not your classic western novel. Great name, wonderful cover, lovely content, amazing storytelling. Shortlisted for the Booker prize I was watching a western comedy with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson when I thought that I should read a proper western novel at s Update on the movie!
I was watching a western comedy with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson when I thought that I should read a proper western novel at some point.
When I was little, I used to enjoy Karl May but that was the last time I immersed myself into this genre. That evening, I started to browse the only western I owned if I don't count the Gunslinger and I found myself in love with the author's voice right from the start.
The Sisters brothers are Eli and Charlie, 2 famous paid killers working for the Commodore. They are hired to find and kill a prospector in San Fransisco.
The novel presents their journey to California and their adventures while they are there. Eli and Charlie could not be more different from each other.
Charlie is bossy, impulsive, a bit of psychopath, loves to drink and does not hold too much respect for his brother. Eli, on the other hand, is sensitive, loves his brother, cares for his horses, does not enjoy killing people uselessly and his dream is to settle down with a woman.
The story is told by Eli, and oh, it is such a beautiful voice. It was moved by his candid feelings and could not help but sympathise with Eli, despite him being a killer.
View all 17 comments. Jan 18, Peter rated it it was amazing Shelves: crime , favorites , literary-fiction , thriller. Satirical The Sisters Brothers is an exceptional novel that is absorbing and delightfully original.
The writing style is lyrical and the dialogue flows so effortlessly with its satirical interweaving of humour, brotherhood, loneliness, intrigue and murder.
The two Sisters brothers, Charlie and Eli are hitmen for the Commodore, who has contracted them to assassinate Hermann Kermit War Satirical The Sisters Brothers is an exceptional novel that is absorbing and delightfully original.
They are both remorseless killers but Eli wants to try new things and dreams of a different life, perhaps opening a store, settle down with a female - any female — such a sweet guy.
While they are both psychopaths, with a lack of emotional attachment, their witty and entertaining exchanges create significant empathy.
There is nothing predictable about the storyline and we watch the two brothers wondering what encounter will happen next. It was a joy to just lift this book, let the words flow and be captivated with a really engrossing story.
The chapters are short and punchy, underpinning a good solid pace to the story. I would highly recommend reading this book.
View all 29 comments. Mar 14, Debra rated it really liked it. This was a strange, quirky and oddly captivating book that I simply could not put down.
Eli and Charlie Sisters are not only brothers, but they are assassins put to the task of killing Hermann Kermit Warm.
It seems that Mr. Warm, who by all accounts is a likable fellow, has stolen something from the Commodore, the fearsome and loathsome employer of the Sisters brothers.
The year is ant the two brothers make their way through Oregon and California on the hunt for Mr. Along the way they w This was a strange, quirky and oddly captivating book that I simply could not put down.
Along the way they will wet Charlie's taste for Whiskey, Eli will discover the joys of toothpaste, decide to go on a diet, and question what he wants out of life.
Both men will endure their own medical issues along the way. Not to mention the unmentionable cast of characters they will meet and Kill along the way.
This is an interesting book that at times is funny, gritty, repulsive, endearing yes, I said endearing , and violent.
In short, this book is a hoot! I probably would not have picked this book up if it weren't for my Goodreads friends reading and reviewing it.
This was unique but also rewarding. I imagine the Author laughing like a fool while writing this. I know I would have been! It's imaginative, unique and a western without really being a western huh?
It's peculiar and enjoyable! Don't take my word for it, read the book! See more of my reviews at www. View all 15 comments. Aug 06, Dan Schwent rated it liked it Shelves: lendable , When the Commodore orders the Sisters brothers to kill Herman Kermit Warm and take his mysterious formula, they have no idea the series of misadventures they will endure in the undertaking.
I've been interested in this book forever and nabbed it on the cheap when it popped up on one of my ebook newsletter things. It may have been that my expectations were too high but this didn't live up to the hype for me.
I liked the characters of Eli and Charlie Sister, natural born killers in the old west. T When the Commodore orders the Sisters brothers to kill Herman Kermit Warm and take his mysterious formula, they have no idea the series of misadventures they will endure in the undertaking.
They were funny at times and brutal at others. I also liked the overly-formal Western dialog with few contractions, much like the Coehn brothers version of True Grit.
I suspect the novel has the same style of dialog but I've yet to read it. The book is described as being a picaresque adventure, which it is.
It's also not a very interesting one for long stretches at a time. I loved the writing but I kept getting drowsy while reading it.
I've never before been torn between my admiration for writing and my desire to toss a book back on the unread pile for something more interesting.
I did like it more than I thought it was bland, though. There were enough twists and reversals of fortune to keep me from drooling on my Kindle.
There were a few close calls, though. Three out of five stars. View all 9 comments. Dec 17, Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing.
My original review may still be missing If this historical FUN fiction I remember saying in my "lost review". It was the best 'dude' book I had read.
Great 'dude' book that any female will adore. I was 'liking' a new friends review on this book --and notice my review was missing in action Iris??
I loved this book --I thought it was a blast!! View all 20 comments. Jun 22, Paul Bryant rated it really liked it Shelves: novels , modern-western.
The Sisters Brothers is the son of True Grit , a funny, heartbreaking 5 star novel from Same genre — unconsciously-hilarious wild west memoir written in curious stiff slightly formal and stilted but purely beautiful language beginning at the beginning and driving the surprising narrative always forward without stopping to apologise to all the dead people and animals encountered en route.
At this point you may say that this thing has also been done recently and won a big bad Booker for itsel The Sisters Brothers is the son of True Grit , a funny, heartbreaking 5 star novel from At this point you may say that this thing has also been done recently and won a big bad Booker for itself - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey.
Yes, it is very similar, but Peter Carey over egged his pudding to a most nauseating level. You could not believe a word of it.
Patrick DeWitt does not make this mistake. But could they have made such a terrific error? No error, this is the story of two guns for hire whose surname is Sisters, and is narrated by the frankly fat one he goes on a diet around page 50 Eli Sisters.
They are already famous for shooting people and this is the story of how they came to change their ungodly lifestyle. All the way through Eli struggles with the horrible stuff these brothers find themselves doing.
He gets so mad at these people making him have to shoot them that he wants to shoot them. What a conundrum! Horses, especially a wonky donkey of a horse called Tub, feature very prominently.
Strong believers in animal rights and all vegans should be advised that there are more than a few scenes in here that are guaranteed to make all individual hairs on their body, should they have any, stand straight up perpendicularly.
Poor old Tub. And what happens to the beavers is most distressing too. What happened to the fifth star? Well, Eli Sisters is a compelling narrator all right but him and his brother are a tough sell.
And the ending, the one after the actual ending, was strange, like one of those unresolved chords they sometimes end a song with. So, 4. View all 18 comments.
Shelves: audio , western , library , This was an entertaining little western story. A collection of anecdotes chronicling the notorious Sisters Brothers as they journey West to complete a job in Gold Rush era California.
It has all the elements you might expect in a western — gunfights, crazy prospectors, horses, grimy locales, outlaws, snake oil salesmen, women of the night, etc.
I really enjoyed the beginning of the book. The dialogue was quic This was an entertaining little western story. The dialogue was quick and witty.
The story moved a long at a decent clip. Lots of different things were happening to keep me engaged. Not that it got bad, it was just as if I was racing my horse down a good quality trail and then it suddenly started to pour rain and the path quickly became a sticky quagmire that required some extra effort to push through.
I would have liked to see it end at the same pace that it had begun. My favorite element of the story was the character building of the Sisters Brothers.
Each of them unique in their own way, but together, a force to be reckoned with. Eli: attempting to lose weight to impress the ladies and interested in new-fangled technology like tooth brushing.
Charlie the more ruthless and deadlier of the two — trying to maintain his badassness while dealing with alcoholism and the misadventures of his not quite so focused brother.
But, again, their reputation precedes them and, while we as the reader see the true, intricate nature of the brothers, when they walk into a bar and people find out that these are the infamous Sisters Brothers, the temperature drops, and people start diving behind the bar and out the window!
If you like westerns, give this one a try. While it has shades of other westerns I have read, it is definitely unique.
View all 14 comments. Aug 03, Joe Valdez rated it did not like it Shelves: western , abandoned. I was sitting in my car outside the Mission Viejo Public Library waiting for my friend Townes to come out with some books.
I had told him I was in a western frame of mind and to pick me up something published rather recently. Like what, Townes had said.
I did not go inside with Townes because there was a cute South African librarian working there and I wasn't happy about my looks at the moment.
Townes came back with four I was sitting in my car outside the Mission Viejo Public Library waiting for my friend Townes to come out with some books.
Townes came back with four books. These books were The Sisters Brothers for me and some Russian novelists for him. Townes was critical of my choice being such a slim volume, associating page length with shallowness.
But having finished two Larry McMurtry epics, I was ready for a terse, exciting western. Not exciting as in stagecoach chases and such, but exciting in terms of storytelling or perhaps writing.
I was recently surprised by how much I enjoyed Cormac McCarthy. Now if you've read two paragraphs of this book report, are wondering where any of this is going, but still reading anyway, then The Sisters Brothers might be the book for you.
It is a western about two brothers who are hired killers. There is Charlie, who's been put in charge on a job to kill a miner run afoul with their powerful employer, the Commodore.
Then there's Eli, who narrates the story. Like me, Eli is a romantic who doesn't know how to get to the point. Eli tells about encountering people on the trail.
Charlie drinks a lot and is apt to shoot anyone who gives him what he thinks is a good reason. He also condescends to his brother. A lot. I would say Charlie is psychotic, but that Eli is idiotic.
For one, he tells and tells and tells a story that goes nowhere. Kind of like this book report. Second, Eli rides with his brother despite being treated so poorly.
Third, he stands around while Charlie boozes and mistreats people. This is how Patrick deWitt writes the first 97 pages. Oh, the fans might say, you shouldn't have quit because the book gets really good later on.
This sounds like something Eli might say. In other words, idiotic. I have no time to give a new author pages plus to grab me, not when I have Terms of Endearment on the shelf.
Or maybe target practice. Or maybe the pigs would eat it. View all 32 comments. May 03, Annet rated it really liked it Shelves: weird , family-ties , wilderness-books-can-usa , crime.
Great read, I love it View all 3 comments. I am so not the target audience for this story. And I thoroughly enjoyed it, from the get go. Charlie Sisters has the lead here, but it is Eli that will take you there.
And tell you all about his horse, poor Tub, and the women he meets along the way. How he feels; what he wants; how he sees things, love and some alarmingly, g I am so not the target audience for this story.
How he feels; what he wants; how he sees things, love and some alarmingly, gruesome grub. It is all about the journey. Im Spätsommer kam er in die Kinos [10] , so am September in Frankreich und am September in ausgewählte US-Kinos.
März startete Wild Bunch Germany ihn in den deutschen Kinos. Zwar könnten einzelne explizite Gewalt- und Actionszenen unter Jährige überfordern, doch Jährigen biete das historische Setting und die ansonsten zurückhaltende Inszenierung genug Entlastung.
Todd McCarthy von The Hollywood Reporter erklärt, wie viele klassische Western erzähle der Film eine Geschichte von Verfolgung und des geduldigen Wartens, von einer langen Reise und von den bekannten und unbekannten Gefahren, die eine solche mit sich bringe.
Zudem lasse The Sisters Brothers aber noch die Neugier des Filmemachers Jacques Audiard erkennen, der es offensichtlich sehr genossen habe, ein Land zu entdecken, das für ihn nach unzähligen Filmen sowohl vertraut aber auch ziemlich weit entfernt sei.
Anders als viele frühere Western zeige der Film keine wortkargen Männer, vielmehr könnten sie sich teilweise sehr gut artikulieren, und die vier im Zentrum der Geschichte stehenden Männer seien von den Drehbuchautoren sogar mit dem nötigen Quantum Intelligenz ausgestattet worden.
Die hervorragende Besetzung werde von John C. Reilly in einer Art Hauptrolle angeführt, auf die dieser seine ganze Karriere lang gewartet habe.
Dem Regisseur gelinge dabei erneut ein faszinierend vielschichtiges Porträt von Männlichkeit, wobei er seine Sisters Brothers ihre femininen Seiten ausloten lasse, ohne sie je ganz der Lächerlichkeit preiszugeben.
Miller begeistern könne, finde auch hier sein Glück. Der Film sei empfehlenswert, nicht nur weil er eine Literaturverfilmung und niveauvolle Unterhaltung sei, sondern auch weil er die Gewalt im Selbstbild der mächtigsten Nation intelligent diskutiere.
Internationale Filmfestspiele von Venedig Satellite Awards Toronto International Film Festival Filme von Jacques Audiard. Namensräume Artikel Diskussion.
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Juliette Welfling. Dieter Bellmann Tot nicht ohne Hoffnung, dass es einmal anders wird. So ist für ihn momentan der wichtigste Karriereschritt den eh schon gewalt tät igen Ruf noch weiter auszubauen. Teilen Sie Ihre Meinung mit. März startete Wild Bunch Germany ihn in den deutschen Kinos. CheekyCornflakes 1.
