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Screening at Kai Cinema: “Sisters”

Psychological thriller by Brian De Palma with a journalist, twins, and fractured memory

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Screening of Brian De Palma’s psychological thriller Sisters, a film about a journalist who witnesses a murder and uncovers the dark past of a pair of twins. It brings together identity, trauma, violence, medical experimentation, and fractured memory, while using giallo elements, split screen, subjective camera, and tense montage. The film features music by Bernard Herrmann and stars Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning.

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27 September 2026, Sunday · 18:00–19:33 · From €6 · EN

Kai Art Center, Peetri tänav 12, 10415 Tallinn, Harju maakond ↗

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Duration: 1h 33min

Genre: psychological thriller

“Sisters” is psychological thriller that weaves together themes of identity, trauma, and violence. The film follows a journalist who witnesses a murder and uncovers the dark past of a pair of twins, revealing a disturbing mix of brutality, medical experimentation, and fractured memory.

At the same time, the film is surprisingly playful, visually inventive, and narratively bold, with the paranoia and social tension of the 1970s giving it a contemporary political resonance.

The film “Sisters” is one of the key psychological thrillers of the 1970s, shifting the genre’s focus from external threat to internal fragmentation. It blends giallo aesthetics, investigative drama, and identity psychology, creating an atmosphere that is both stylish and unsettling.

Director Brian De Palma’s signature style is clearly recognizable in “Sisters.” The film feels like a precursor to his later works (“Carrie,” “Blow Out,” “Dressed to Kill”).

It can be considered De Palma’s first major step toward psychological thrillers and horror cinema, and it is here that the foundational elements of his distinctive style begin to emerge: split screen, subjective camera, tense montage, Hitchcockian influences, and a constant play with the boundaries between reality and illusion.

The score was composed by legendary Bernard Herrmann, who also wrote the music for Hitchcock’s "Psycho" and "Vertigo". His contribution gives the film the unmistakable sound of a classic thriller.

NB! The film does not have Estonian subtitles!

Country: USA, 1972

Director: Brian De Palma

Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Language: English

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