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Fresh:43
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: As bizarre as it is, this mockumentary about a pair of conjoined rockers is surprisingly poignant and filled with authentic period details.
Theatrical Release:Jul 28, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (LOST IN LA MANCHA) mark an extraordinary narrative debut with this faux documentary about Siamese twin punk rockers in the early 1970s. Stunning photography by Anthony... [More]
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Tom Bower, Sean Harris
Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, the duo who made the documentary Lost in La Mancha, turn the movie itself into a kind of conjoined twin: the silly and the grim are attached to each other at awkward angles.
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Expressionistic and weirdly poignant... you'll be conjoined to your seat whenever Ken Russell comes in to discuss clips from his abandoned biopic Two-Way Romeo.
Is appropriately moody and gets the music right, but becomes as incoherent and messy as the lives of the protagonists in the film's second half.
Brothers isn't slick or self-conscious, but it constructs a weird fantastical journey for the audience that blurs the line between medical reality and rock fiction.
The saga is presented, despite the absurdities, as the absolute truth. You find yourself believing, wanting to believe. After all, despite the extremes, it could happen, maybe even did happen.
It's the songs ... that give the movie its emotional ballast, countering the filmmakers' intellectualized approach and meta-narrative style.
Top CriticA provocative but oddly unsatisfying film experiment.
Top CriticPepe and Fulton seem to have mastered a certain ability to capture a time period while being authentic both to its trends and their style.
It's knowledgeable about the dynamics of a band, about the conventions of documentaries and about how complicated sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll would be if you shared a liver.
Yes, this is another faux rock documentary, but one so dramatically and visually textured that it reinvents that decidedly worn genre.
"Lost In La Mancha" directors Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton take a flailing mockumentary shot at a convoluted narrative about a pair of conjoined twins-turned-punk-rock-duo.
The trouble, at last, isn't testosterone or loss of control or even exploitation. It's the join, the difference and the sameness, the show. And it's unending.
The credible feel of this film-within-the-film remains an achievement; it’s neither mocking nor parodic and nearly always deadly serious.
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The Treadaways are terrific and comedy finds an umbilical link to tragedy.
Pepe, Fulton and screenwriter Tony Grisoni, who had worked on Gilliam's Quixote picture, inject great detail into the Howes' story, yet the siblings feel distant and disconnected, a couple of ciphers you never really get to know.
Top CriticMethinks it might have connected better as a narrative piece...
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