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Review by shookone ★★★½ Liked

110 vignettes of freaky oddness. dips into several genres but always goes somewhere else than you thought it would. a celebration of goofiness, with a wink towards subversion. Radhika Apte is a joy to watch.

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was already locked in and then the stop motion goats turned up

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me when i have a day off with nothing to do

Review by RuhiShrawagi ★★★

Tends to happen when u get married to a man

Review by Tessa ★★★★

I’m going to start shaking my bracelets at people who anger me

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Sister Midnight is nearly impossible to speak on without ruining what the film truly is, but I appreciated this wildly funny film that wasn’t afraid to shift genre at a dime to provide a stylish reflection on the horrors of domesticity and how that chases you regardless of the choices you can make. Radhika Apte really does a fantastic job of bringing to life this woman trapped in a role she is revolting against whether situations are absurd or a lot more grim. The vignette-like style of the film took some orienting, but grew on me very quickly.

Hawai’i International Film Festival #8

Review by Brandon Streussnig Liked

“It’s hard being human. What’s your excuse?”

Immediately adored this film’s bizarre wavelength, loved getting lost down its extremely funny, often gross, but always lovely corridors. A real, moving love for ostracized communities. One of this year’s best. Radhika Apte is sensational.

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Girls when they're bored

Review by Darren ★★★★ Liked

“You’re a monster…”
“It’s hard to be human. What’s your excuse?”

It feels like it’s hard to talk about Sister Midnight in any real depth without potentially spoiling the fun of Sister Midnight.

This is obviously an insanely reductive take, but perhaps the best way to think of Sister Midnight is as if Wes Anderson shot a monster movie in India. It borrows Anderson’s static symmetrical style, his fondness for mid-century needle drops, his affection for stop motion, and his tendency to reduce characters’ movements within a static frame to a single axis - left to right, front to back, top to bottom.

The film itself strikes a wonderful balance between world-weary cynicism and sincere humanism, largely anchored in Radhika Apte‘a central performance that manages to remain sympathetic without ever feeling like it has to likeable. It’s a remarkable piece of work.

And very fun.

Review by jrhovind ★

A certain numbing, suffocating sameness that’s left me increasingly uninterested in a certain kind of contemporary “arthouse” cinema; when Netflix and Instagram become a universal lingua franca stretching to nearly ever corner of the globe, and it all just feels like stuff from another show I’ve seen before and never want to watch again. The needle drops so calculatedly idiosyncratic they’ve become so dull and expected, the same sense of humor trapped somewhere between affectless affectation and tame absurdism, the sort of edgy quirk that never stops to ponder how tepid and safe it actually is. Anything the film might have to say about its nominal subject – a young wife’s mounting boredom and disenchantment and fear of coupledom and…

Review by uawanama ★★★

went for a cigarette after the screening, there was a nice breeze outside

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Started off strong but dragged on sooo bad in the second half and felt super directionless. Loved the stop motion though!

Also what is this title girl