This
film is loosely based on facts. The Mantle brothers are twins and they are both
gynecologists in Toronto. They
look exactly alike but they are different in personality, temperament and medical
expertise. Elliot is the dominant
twin, confident, good at public speaking and a ladies man. Beverly is more reserved and better at
working with the patients. Elliot meets
Claire Niveau, she is an actress and he thinks Beverly would like her
more. Beverly and Claire become
very close but she likes to take drugs and Beverly begins to take them
too. Claire leaves for an acting
role and Beverly starts to fall apart without her. Elliot continues with his part of their exclusive practice
and he doesn’t realize how disturbed Beverly has become.
This
is a very different and slightly eerie film with a cold, detached style and Irons
playing both roles of the twins with differences in their hair to tell them apart.
Claire shakes everything up in their very well tailored life. Since Beverly is the one who is
repressed, changes affect him first and the worst. Elliot wants everything to remain the same for their lives
and their medical practice. The music sets you up to thinks you will see something really terrible but the film is visually controlled without special effects. 3* (This movie is OK)
116
min, Drama directed by David Cronenberg with Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold,
Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack, Nick
Nichols, Lynne Cormack, Damir Andrei, Miriam Newhouse.
Note: Imdb 7.4 out of 10, 83% critic 83%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*.
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