Two sisters with different accents
Maybe one of them should have faked an accent to match the other's.
shareIt's meant as a clue to this being allegorical and not to be taken literally.
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They're also from a very broken family. The mother has an accent and the father does not. It's entirely possible that Claire lived with her mother and Justine with her father. And there's no way of knowing how young they were when they split or where they lived afterwards.
shareThe dad had an english accent as well though.
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Yeah both the parents and Claire had an English accent. Justine was the only one who didn't. Frankly, as a filmmaker and actor myself this bothered me and I felt it didn't match at all. But strangely as an audience member it didn't bother me one bit. Because I still found myself believing they were both her parents and that Charlotte Gainsbourg was her sister. It's strange I must say.
I don't speak whatever.
Exactly! I'm watching this movie right now, and the only one w/o an accent is Justine, Kristen Dunst's character. It's just weird. What's also weird is how this girl is not medicated for whatever depression/anxiety disorder she has.
shareActually both the mother and father have accents - they just have different ones.
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I agree that that sort of thing throws me off, but it is actually fairly common.
My husband and his siblings each have different accents, having been born in N. Ireland, and moving to Canada in their teens. The oldest sibling also lived in Canada until he was 6ish, which impacted his accent. Their parents have very strong Irish accents, and the siblings have varying degrees of Irish accent mixed with Ontarian.
And that is just with siblings raised together. Siblings raised by different parents, or spending varying amounts of time in other countries or speaking different languages could have even more distinct accents