Dead Ringers (1988)
Country: CAN
Technical: col 115m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold
Synopsis:
The shared and ordered existence of twin gynaecologists is disrupted by a woman with three cervices.
Review:
The director continues to explore mutation, braving feminists on the one hand and a male audience that doesn't want to know on the other. Most of the horror, thankfully, is in the mind, and Irons does an admirable job of rendering differentiated performances, so that you know which brother he is at any given moment. This distinguishes the film from Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts, with which it shares its central configuration of scientist twins mesmerised by a unique female; here the themes of mutation and duplication are brilliantly merged when the twins become psychologically deformed and incapable of functioning as before.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 115m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold
Synopsis:
The shared and ordered existence of twin gynaecologists is disrupted by a woman with three cervices.
Review:
The director continues to explore mutation, braving feminists on the one hand and a male audience that doesn't want to know on the other. Most of the horror, thankfully, is in the mind, and Irons does an admirable job of rendering differentiated performances, so that you know which brother he is at any given moment. This distinguishes the film from Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts, with which it shares its central configuration of scientist twins mesmerised by a unique female; here the themes of mutation and duplication are brilliantly merged when the twins become psychologically deformed and incapable of functioning as before.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 115m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold
Synopsis:
The shared and ordered existence of twin gynaecologists is disrupted by a woman with three cervices.
Review:
The director continues to explore mutation, braving feminists on the one hand and a male audience that doesn't want to know on the other. Most of the horror, thankfully, is in the mind, and Irons does an admirable job of rendering differentiated performances, so that you know which brother he is at any given moment. This distinguishes the film from Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts, with which it shares its central configuration of scientist twins mesmerised by a unique female; here the themes of mutation and duplication are brilliantly merged when the twins become psychologically deformed and incapable of functioning as before.