I wish IMDb.com allowed "Likes" and "Comments" the way social media allows these days. Although there were some beautiful scenes, most of the outdoor shots were stunning (I'd love to know where it was all shot, as it seems to be an idyllic land to visit), and the lead actors are all gorgeous and obviously very talented -- these riches were all just wasted on this much-too-long film. Kudos to the Casting Director, those two lead actresses could definitely pass for sisters with their mesmerizing blue eyes, and the "Schiller" character was played by a very hunky and charming actor. I didn't really need to write a movie review, because the review posted by "Trivial Tapestry" says it all. As did all the other user reviewers who agreed that "Beloved Sisters" was simply boring overall with a practically non-existent musical score.

Two cuts of the movie that is. There is the shorter cinema version and the Directors cut, which obviously is longer. And therefor more conclusive, which also makes more sense than. If you only watched the shorter version you probably won't get that. Not that this means it's a sure thing you will like the longer version.One thing is for sure, there went a lot of thought into the design(s) of the movie. Again you might not like what you see, but the effort is there. Also our male lead has a way of speaking that fits more with a period piece like this than contemporary cinema. If you see it favorable you'll call it sophisticated. Acting in general is good, though not up to par with things Natalie Portman did of course. Still a refreshing look (with some artistic freedom/choices) back at time/history

Beloved Sisters is a Romantic epic about the failure of Romanticism. It needs its 138-minute sweep because it's a love story that parallels the sweep of modern history.From our current perspective Romanticism is splendid in literature, exhorting readers to huge ambitions, untrammelled individualism, unleashed emotions and the full embrace of natural. You can't complain about a movement that gave us Schiller, Goethe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, John Lennon. But off the page and stage it can be bloody brutal. The Romantic ideals of the French Revolution soured into the anarchy, mob violence and slaughter that ensued. German Romanticism bred nationalism and we know how many lives that cost the world in 20th Century Europe and around the globe still today. The story of Schiller's passionate affair with two sisters replays those inevitable schisms on the domestic plane. In the ironic title, the sisters start out beloved — by Schiller but more importantly by each other — then end up antagonists. Their dying mother tries to reconcile them, to more disputatious result. Their passionate triangle left several marriages in ruin, even if they remained intact. The girls take a roaring waterfall as the emblem of their anti-conventional wills. Though Schiller can't swim he saves a little girl from drowning in a tamer current, but he has to be saved by one of the sisters and warmed back to life by both. The scene proves prophetic because all three lovers fail to navigate the tumultuous current of their pledged manage a trois. Nice place to visit, Romanticism, but it's hard to live there. Our need for social order and responsibility won't accommodate it.

This is a very intellectual, very complex movie. I had expected a movie more focused on Schiller's relationship with Goethe since they are such giants in German literature and history, but the movie focuses on the 3 way loving relationship between Schiller, his wife and his sister in law.I left the movie wondering how much of the movie was fact and how much was conjecture. The expert opinion is that the events in the movie could have happened, and many of them likely did. All of the historical context is correct. It is also a fact that Schiller's sister in law wrote Shiller's biography, which would confirm the deep feelings between Schiller and his sister in law that is portrayed in the movie. Highly recommended.