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Summary: One of the Most Successful Film From David Croneneberg.
Review: This is one of the Best Films of David Cronenberg has ever Directed. He Best Known for the 1986 Remake-The Fly, The Dead Zone:Based on a novel by Stephen King, Naked Lunch-Starring Peter Weller(Robo Cop) and Judy Davis(The Ref) on his others strange different films.One of the best thing about this psychological drama is Actor-Jeremy Irons(Die Hard With A Vengeance, The Man in The Iron Mask, The Voice of Scar in:The Lion King). He Plays:Two identical twins are slightly different for each other. They are also Brilliant Gynecologists. One is charismatic and outgoing, his name:Elliot `Elli` Mantle and the another is:a shy and hard-working, emotionally inseparable. They share the same woman, Played by Genevieve Bujold, who plays has been actress, trying to make an comeback in her career. One of the brothers start taking drugs, while the another one is also having the same problem and while he trying to say that: he's in love with the actress(Bujold). An wired and an sad also strange ending to this Powerful Drama. Thanks from David Cronenberg's directing and he also Wrote the film, which is actually based on a true story. Jeremy Irons gives strong performances as the two brothers, which is hard to tell, when are together on screen. Excellent Job on the editing by Ronald Sanders, Production Designer by Carol Spier and Cinematographer by Peter Suschitzky. DVD:Criterion Collection is worth buying, if you could find it, it's gives audio commentary from the Director, Actor, Editor, Production Designer and Cinematographer is Worth Buying. And also another great extras: Including Croneneberg's short movies.
Don`t Miss, this fascinating, powerful, strange film From canadian director:David Cronenberg. Grade:A.
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Summary: Incredible film, spectacular acting, a tragic masterpeice.
Review: This is my favorite film by David Cronenberg, namely because of Jeremy Iron's performance in this one, and the director's moody and Ballard-esque reach into the a true-life story of close identical twins who were just too close. Rarely have I seen a film this awe-inspiring and satisfying, because it has a cool, sleek, surgical atmosphere and a story that is intriguing and really delivers drama to Cronenberg's range of passion. Elegant and dark, this psychodrama takes you to a world of manipulation, sexuality, chemical dependency, depression, hallucination, passion, love, and an eerie attraction to throwing it all away, everything for that comfort in a decaying chaos. Surgical instruments help two sibling fall from grace when they take up with sex and drugs, depression and paranoia resulting from both. As gynecologists, they lose focus in their work, abusing their power to shape a horrorific existence within elite society and medicine. And then delve into inhuman focus with instrument designs for mutant women, inspired by their love interest. Now if you can find any appropriate placement for emotions in all that, you have happened upon the structure, the mere implications of this film. So many more things lie within it, that the addition to the performances will make you cry "Oscar!". And yet, I support the fact that this film was a tragedy: it won little attention, much less Oscars.
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Summary: Jeremy Irons deserved 2 Best Actor Oscars!!!
Review: Jeremy Irons deserved 2 Best Actor Oscars for this incredible performance!!! After a few seconds, I really believed there were 2 different people on screen, yet, at the same time, he portroyed the personalities as similar enough to be actual twins. As a Doctor myself, I was particularly fascinated by the knowledge that this was based upon a true story. Much of this tale is very disturbing to me also as a woman, particularly the scene where Beverly, in a very demented state, uses his instrument meant for surgery on an awake patient and ignores her protests of pain. I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers...and to anyone who loves Jeremy Irons (imagine...you get to see him twice in nearly every frame!)
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Summary: A master piece
Review: A fantastic movie with the, perhaps, best male performance of all times. Thank you Cronenberg and Jeremy Irons.
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Summary: Definately not for everyone
Review: Yet again, Cronenberg displays Canadian cinema is as far from Hollywood as you can just about get. This wild and very freaky movie is definately one of his most memorable, but not his best. The movie works best in the first half and a bit in the last, where we get a deeper look at the twins. This is incredibly creepy at times, but then the movie throws that all out at the end when it goes for slasher thrills. Could have done better.
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Summary: Devastating
Review: This movie is a superbely constructed piece of cinema and it is Cronenberg at his best.Although the film may seem boring and uninterseting in some parts this is only to add to the overall structure of the film.You slowly let this movie inside you ( not in the sense of videodrome ,ofcourse) until it finally devastates you which is almost certainley what Cronenberg wanted.This film is not for the weak hearted.Ultimatley disturbing
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Summary: An undiluted masterpiece of psychological filmaking
Review: It would be unfair to react to Dead Ringers' many contrasts with a single response. Like The Dead Zone and The Fly, Cronenberg has given us a meditation on a horrifying idea taken to it's logical conclusion. With Dead Ringers however the idea operates less as science-fiction than as a psychological drama. The story plays-out with such understatement that the context develops frightening significance: gynecology serves as the backdrop against which the characters play, providing a rich source of potential terrors both physically and emotionally. The fragile thread holding together the Mantle twins' complex relationship disintegrates when a famous (though unstable) actress (played with great subtlety by Genevieve Bujold) enters their clinic and their lives. What Jeremy Irons brings to the role of the twins lifts the film out of any genre and above the camera-technology which would traditionally be the novelty. It is an astonishing performance of two very slightly different people struggling to either increase or eliminate that difference. Their attempts lead through sexual and chemical dependency, emotional breakdown and ultimately into madness. Peter Suschitzky's cinematography is rich yet restrained. Howard Shore's haunting score underlines the frail, human quality of characters wrestling with pathological needs to connect and disconnect with others.
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Summary: Acting tutorial
Review: Irons' performance(s) is/are pure caviar. As good as he is, Genevieve Bujold steals nearly every scene she's in (not enough, unfortunately, for my taste). Prospective actors should sleep with this video under their pillow. They may get nightmares (he did), but they'll be treated to two--well, three actually--of the best acting jobs in years.
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Summary: Slick, well acted, and nasty
Review: This slick, well acted, and nasty psychological thriller is not for the squeamish. It's a landmark in the work of David Cronenberg in that it functions as a more mature horror melodrama rather than the ambitious but sometimes schlocky earlier works he directed. Irons is terrific as both brothers and their scenes together are miraculously shot as if he indeed, has a twin brother. The film is grim and while not particularly graphic, very grotesque in tone. On the downside, the climax is easy to see coming and the film always keeps me wondering what more could have been done with these characters. The DVD has an outstanding picture transfer yet the music score distorts a bit on deep bass passages. It may have been the copy I viewed but the score did this on 2 different DVD decks. Considering the limitations of the DVD picture format, the transfer is sharp and has very little fluctuation or artifacting. WIth the exception of the slight music distortion, the disc is well worth the price for fans of the film. Hordes of intersting extras and interviews as well.
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Summary: Brilliant film!
Review: This film really places David Cronenberg as one of the best, if not the premier, filmmakers of the "body horror" genre. His interpretation of the dual psyche of the Mantle Twins goes from soberly sinister to frenetically gorey. I was left baffled as to which is which, caused by the development of the Twins' characters. Jeremy Irons, as usual, delivered another tour-de-force of a performance with his audience-confusing portrayal of the virile Elliot and the gentle Beverly. The surgical tools designed by Peter Grundy reflect the grisly state of mind of the Twins. Overall, a great film, except for some scenes where the Twins were together, where either of them would appear a little bit transluscent and the background showing from the back through the face or the hands. It's good that Cronenberg gave the title "Twins" to director Ivan Reitman; this could have given the movie an impressionable twist.
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