Cafe Biografen invites you to cure your hangover with a movie during Nashville Nights. Sit back and get comfortable as we screen modern classics with a Wild West theme.
With the Silver Lion-winning The Sisters Brothers, French director Jacques Audiard has not only delivered his first English-language film, but also his first genuinely funny one. Set in the Wild West of the 1850s, brothers Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) and Eli (John C. Reilly) Sisters work as hitmen for a shady and power-hungry crime boss known as the Commodore. Everyone knows that when the Sisters brothers come to town, heads will roll. And that is exactly the plan when the Commodore sends them hunting for gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed), who allegedly owes him money.
Tracking him from a distance is private detective John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal). But when Morris crosses paths with Warm, he begins to question the legitimacy of the job—especially after Warm introduces him to a potentially highly lucrative invention. Suddenly, all bets are off. Based on Canadian author Paul DeWitt’s award-winning novel of the same name, The Sisters Brothers is a film about brotherhood, hope, and shifting masculine ideals at the dawn of the modern world.