Above Hollywood and below indie.
There was a time in our movie-loving town when the natural fit for the German film Beloved Sisters would have been either the Harvard Exit or the Seven Gables. But the former is gone, leaving the latter to cover not only for it, but also for the Varsity, which Landmark vacated late last year (it reopened last month under the management of Far Away Entertainment, a very brave Bainbridge Island–based company that also runs, among other venues, West Seattle’s Admiral Theater). Beloved Sisters is not experimental or original or outstanding. It’s instead the kind of film that college-educated Americans love to consume. It is above Hollywood and below indie. It is, in a word, middlebrow. But middlebrow at its very best…
