OUT 8 OCTOBER

The younger sister in question is middle-aged playwright Lisa (Nina Hoss), whose beloved twin brother Sven (Lars Eidinger), a theatre actor in Berlin, has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia. Moving between the German capital and the Swiss Alps, where Lisa lives with her husband and children, this naturalistic drama from writer-directors Véronique Reymond and Stéphanie Chuat avoids the easy sentimentality that can afflict films concerning terminal illness. Hoss and Eidinger excel as the emotionally intimate and creatively driven twins. Tom Dawson