The Silent Twins
Regie:
Agnieszka SmoczyńskaDrehbuch:
Andrea SeigelKamera:
Jakub KijowskiBesetzung:
Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Jodhi May, Jack Bandeira, Treva Etienne, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Declan Joyce, Franciszek Przanowski, Ewa Rodart (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Silent Twins is the haunting story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and 80s. Feeling isolated from that unwelcoming community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism inspired by an American boy they both idolize, the girls, now teenagers, are summarily sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together. (Focus Features)
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For a film to have a chance to work with the viewer, the viewer must identify with and root for the protagonists. But I didn't find that to be the case with this film. The film has beautiful visuals, sound and excellent acting, but it stumbles on the characters and their portrayals. The Gibbons sisters didn't strike me as likable, so I didn't really have any desire to find out how their whole story would turn out. I'm rooting for the director, though, because you can tell she's done a lot of work on the film and has real talent - but she showed both by crafting a script that has a bunch of imperfections... [LFŠ 2023]
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