Family affair is not your average Western

Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly in The Sisters Brothers

Cinema

The Sisters Brothers: Directed by Jacques Audiard, nationwide, 15A,Rating:****

Happy As Lazzaro: Directed by Alice Rohrwacher, nationwide, 12A,Rating:****

What is it with one-armed cowboys in cinemas currently? In Dumbo, Colin Farrell’s circus cowpoke loses his left one in World War I and, no longer able to throw a lasso, is entrusted with the care of the flying elephant. Now, in Jacques Audiard’s singular adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s picaresque novel The Sisters Brothers, ...