Three Sisters

Name: Three Sisters
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1911-02-02

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Storyline

Mary is the youngest of three sisters and of an impressionable nature. She and her sister Florence are living at home with their widowed mother, while Adele travels on the road with a theatrical company. Adele returns from the road at the end of her season, and is not home long before she realizes that her place is with her mother and sisters. She finds that they neglect their poor old mother, running off to dancing parties every night and associating with the wrong type of people. Adele, who is older and more experienced, decides to stay and watch over them.

Details

DirectorD.W. Griffith

ReleasedFeb 2, 1911

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

6 fresh · 0 rotten

J. Hoberman

RTThe NationNov 10, 2023

Wang’s magnificent 2012 portrait of young children in a subsistence-level village in Yunnan province...

Jeannette Catsoulis

RTNew York TimesMay 9, 2013

"Three Sisters" documents extreme poverty in rural China with the compassionate eye and inexhaustible patience of a director whose curiosity about his country's unfortunates never seems to wane.

Chris Cabin

RTSlant MagazineMay 9, 2013

Wang Bing's no-frills style of documentation visually echoes the preadolescent trio's simple yet unforgiving world and its sense of labor as life.

Steve Erickson

RTGay City NewsFeb 21, 2018

"Three Sisters" isn't quite as visually spectacular as "West of the Tracks," but it takes advantage of the hillside setting of the village, as well as its morning fog.