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Klein and Seydoux as unhappy French siblings in Sister.
Louise (Léa Seydoux), a hot mess whom others assume is a whore and who can’t hold a job or resist hooking up with her abusive boyfriend. Meier uses a stripped-down, naturalistic aesthetic full of well-organized compositions that pay close attention to shifts in character mood, comportment, and behavior. Her eerily silent soundscape adds to a mood of lost souls trying to maintain balance on a dangerous precipice. A midpoint revelation hits hard, even though it’s subtly telegraphed beforehand by a look of piercing desperation from Simon to a skiing mother (Gillian Anderson) and leads to a conclusion of tumultuous disarray (and tentative, qualified hope) that makes clear that resentment and anger only breed more of the same—and, worse still, solitude. (The film also begins a regular engagement next Friday.) SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., 3249996, siff.net. $5–$10. 6:30 p.m. NICK SCHAGER
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Thomas Seeley: ‘Honeybee Democracy’ (10/24) w Thomas Frank: The Hard-Times Paradox (10/25) w Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, & Hope (10/26) + UW World Series: Kathy Mattea: ‘My Coal Journey’ (10/26) w Global Rhythms: Staff Benda Bilili (10/27) w Thalia Symphony Orchestra (10/28) w Mark Z. Danielewski / Seattle Radio Theatre: ‘The Fifty Year Sword’ (10/28) w Scratch Night: Crowdsourcing Fiction with Nassim Assefi & Scholar-In-Residence Lesley Hazleton (10/28) w Bishop Gene Robinson: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage (10/29) w George Church: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature—and Us (10/29) w Timothy Egan: The Life & Photographs of Edward Curtis (10/30) w Kevin Dutton: You Might Be a Psychopath (10/30) w Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin: The Making of Global Capitalism (10/31)
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Brother Against Brother
When we sat down to discuss his new Edward S. Curtis biography, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher (Houghton Mifflin, $28), Timothy Egan gave me a good rule to help distinguish Edward’s photographs from those of his brother Asahel, since they’re so often confused. If the subject is Indians, it’s Edward; if it’s the growth and development of early Seattle, Asahel. (Both took many mountain photos, so it’s best not to guess about those.) The two brothers originally worked together, but had a bitter falling-out that Egan recounts in his book. Asahel, sent to the Klondike to take photos of the Gold Rush, accused Edward of claiming those images as his own. They never spoke again. Asahel remained in Seattle, running his own studio until his 1941 death. Edward became a martyr to his magnum opus, the 20-volume The North American Indian, which took him far from Seattle, ruined his marriage, and left him in Californian poverty for the final decades of his long life (1868–1952). Egan gives us a new appreciation for that life and The North American Indian, an important work of anthropology beyond its haunting photos. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., 652-4255, town hallseattle.org. $5. 7:30 p.m. (Also: Eagle Harbor Books, 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Nov. 1.) BRIAN MILLER