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01/02/09
My Sister Maria (2004)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:7
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Academy-Award-winning actor Maximilian Schell directs this intimate look at the life of his sister, actress Maria Schell. Though she had on-screen pairings with Gary Cooper, Marcello Mastroianni,... [More]
Reviews for My Sister Maria
1 - 16 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticFascinating documentary on the celebrated Austrian actress.
08/10/07
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02/23/07
It's not easy to classify Maximilian Schell's occasionally clumsy but always touching tribute to his actress sister, and it's equally difficult not to be moved by it.
08/20/04
It's unpleasantly bitter (Maximilian had to sell his art collection to keep her out of the poorhouse and he's not happy about it), rather ghoulish, supremely depressing and, considering her condition, a criminal invasion of the woman's privacy.
08/19/04
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08/14/04
It is meant to be a loving and sad portrait of a fading life, but it feels intrusive, excessively brooding and narcissistic.
08/06/04
It's difficult to witness the disintegration of a personality; unfortunately, watching My Sister Maria inspires the question, 'Why was this film made?'
07/20/04
My Sister Maria is a strange bouquet, a sort of pre-memorial.
07/16/04
Bbrave, heartless, and exceedingly strange.
07/09/04
Top CriticAa heartfelt but eccentric, pseudo-documentary.
07/03/04
Top CriticMaximilian's narcissistic examination of his theatrical family -- to the degree that he shows us photos of ancestors even he doesn't know -- can be boring, and his creative license with the truth is kind of troubling.
06/18/04
Feels less like a tribute and more like a chance for Maximilian to play the caring savior.
06/18/04
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06/12/04
A thoughtful look backward, a summing up that attempts to understand what is ephemeral and what truly lasts, what it is that matters in the final analysis.
06/10/04
Top CriticAs tense and fractured, as alienating -- and, finally, touching -- a work as it undoubtedly ought to be.
06/10/04
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