Weird sisters have been spinning their witchy webs in stories dating back to Greek mythology, which included a macabre trio of sisters who passed a single eye between them. There is something of that sense of a closed circle of unknowable femininity between the two teenage girls in September Says , the first film to be directed by Greek Weird Wave actor Ariane Labed , based on the 2020 novel Sisters by Daisy Johnson and set between England and Ireland. July (Mia Tharia) is timid, a new girl at the high school where her sister September (Pascale Kann) is already marked as unruly, aggressive and peculiar, inclined to bullying; she will appoint herself as her sister’s protector.
July is relieved to hang back, even when there is a hint that her sister’s control-freakery may include commanding the weather. There is a whiff of the witch about her, too. Related Stories Reviews Cannes Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline's Movie Reviews Festivals 'Motel Destino' Review: Karim Aïnouz's Neon Nior Examines Fate And Destiny In Brazil - Cannes Film Festival The two girls are of Indian extraction, which means some of the routine insults they get stuck on their lockers are racist.
It’s random racism, however: if their ethnicity weren’t such an easy target the kids would find some other way of needling them. They disturb routine order simply by being themselves. September’s decision to sort out the class queen who sits in front of her by cutting off her pony-tail isn’t going to .
