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Dir: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe.
Cast: Luke Treadaway, Bryan Dick, Harry Treadaway
Description: A story of conjoined twins ruined by rock'n'roll, but this is no freakshow. It's played deadly seriously, with decent punk-era songs tireless visuals and credible performances, led by Harry and Luke Treadway. Despite the hard work the song essentially remains the same.
Country: UK. 2005. 93mins
Brothers of the Head: heart problem
In this bizarre mockumentary about the Seventies music scene we witness the rise and dive of the stagemanaged punk act, The Bang Bang.
The band is fronted by conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe, who have a certain freak appeal. Newcomers Harry and Luke Treadaway, the real-life (though not conjoined) Devonshire twins who play the pair, will have similar novelty value for some viewers, but deserve better.
Beautiful in a sickly, Death in Venice kind of way, these 19-year olds are also superb actors. Their interactions with a journalist - the woman whose love tears them apart - are especially nerve-tingling.
Not all the acting is tight (Sean Harris, as the band's manager, is an especially crude presence). Also troubling is the film's basic conceit.
We're supposedly watching a modern-day documentary about the twins, which includes footage from an aborted documentary shot at the time, as well as an aborted feature film by Ken Russell. It's all very jolly but just too complicated, an excuse for layer upon layer of pastiche, without a central point of view we can trust.
Ironically, directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe used to make real documentaries - most recently the brilliant Lost in La Mancha, about Terry Gilliam's doomed Don Quixote project. Above all, La Mancha signalled the dangers of cramming too many wacky ideas into one film, a lesson this talented pair have now (hopefully) learned for themselves.
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Brothers of the Head is ace and weird all at the same time! It follows conjoined twins as they play guitar in a 70s band. It's half mockumentary, half Spinal Tap gone serious, and while the music is great the acting is a bit far fetched sometimes. I liked this film a lot, but I wouldn't go and see it again.
- George, Ealing, London
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