Complex Sisterhood
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) d: Kim Jee-woon
Raw (2016) d: Julia Ducournau
A Tale of Two Sisters is the tale of two sisters (ha) reunited after one returns home from a mental hospital. Then stuff gets strange and twisty, natch. This movie is gorgeous. When it was originally released, it became an instant classic – the highest grossing Korean horror film ever and the first to screen in American theaters. Don’t read anything else about it, just watch it.
Raw is a French movie about cannibalism that allegedly made audience members faint at the Toronto film festival. Stories like that usually make me roll my eyes, but after seeing it, there’s this one scene…..anyways, I believe it. That being said, this definitely isn’t a movie pushing boundaries just for the hell of it, it’s a fascinating and transgressive coming-of-age story. Watch it, then read a bunch of think pieces about it.
(Tonally it’s very different than these two, but Ginger Snaps is a campy classic that also features an interesting sister dynamic)