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The Silent Twins

2022 · 113 min

A haunting, dreamlike plunge into two sisters' private world that is beautiful, claustrophobic and quietly devastating.

Directed by
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Genres
Drama
Starring
Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds
Tagline
Imagination will set you free.
Overview
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.

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Directed by
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Genres
Drama
Starring
Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • identity
    • family
    • loneliness
    Places
    • small town
    • hospital
    • home
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • true story
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror4
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance3
    Tension6
    Darkness7
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight8

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    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Agnieszka Smoczyńska
    Written by
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    Starring
    Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Eva-Arianna Baxter, Nadine Marshall, Treva Etienne, Michael Smiley, Jodhi May
    Music
    Marcin Macuk, Zuzanna Wronska
    Cinematography
    Jakub Kijowski
    Runtime
    113 min
    Country
    United Kingdom, Poland, United States of America
    Languages
    English

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