It is a very touching and artistic movie, despite the overall repressive tone.Based on true events, it goes back to the 1930s France when lesbianism was still an abnormality. The film recasts sister rivalry into vehement, unspeakable, and nerve-disturbing love.After the black-and-white childhood scene with Christine comforting Lea with a soft lullaby, the film begins with a long take of the bloody crime scene which foreshadows a stereotypical lesbian femme fatale.The use of parallel montage is just amazing, especially the one that juxtaposes Christine and Lea’s making out in the attic with Madame and her daughter’s highly competitive card playing downstairs.It is an all-women film: the four women confined within the suffocating house, the invisible, shadowy Mother, and Sister Veronica in Christine’s bitter-sweat memory.。

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