Apes the cinematic and musical excesses of its era so eerily that it's worth a look.
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08/04/06
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Brothers of the Head (2006)
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Reviews Counted:65
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
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Reviews for Brothers of the Head
It's a lurid fiction, told in a clever documentary style that makes it look uncomfortably real.
08/03/06
Top CriticA flashy, stylistic show of emptiness, intended to protest emptiness. But that's clear almost from the outset.
08/03/06
Top CriticYes, this is another faux rock documentary, but one so dramatically and visually textured that it reinvents that decidedly worn genre.
08/03/06
Here, at least, played straight, the mockumentary strictures are more like straitjackets.
08/03/06
Top CriticA glumly serious British mock rock doc: You could forgive the paucity of jokes if Brothers of the Head had anything to say, or if the '70s-verite surface were remotely convincing.
08/02/06
Top Critic...an intelligent, probing, artistic look at an unusual fictional band, The Bang Bang, whose eventual breakup gives splitsville a whole new meaning.
07/30/06
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.
07/30/06
It's all the more frustrating when the film starts to feel draggy and repetitive, and then kind of sidesteps its own climax. But along the way it brims with joy and pain, discovery and oblivion. And that makes it well worth seeing.
07/29/06
Despite some excitingly shot concert footage, one scene begins to feel very much like the next, and it's all rather predictable.
07/28/06
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.
07/28/06
Top CriticThis is a very tender portrayal of young people caught up in a blisteringly fast and cynical world, and though their music is hideous, they are a compelling act.
07/28/06
Top CriticA work of terrific imagination, visceral punch and gothic beauty.
07/28/06
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.
07/28/06
Even is you're not a fan of the time and its music, Brothers of the Head is fascinating to watch as the makers build a convincing mockumentary
07/28/06
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.
07/28/06
What could have been a powerful and poignant exploration of the British music biz ends up being merely above average.
07/27/06
This is a fake documentary that barely lets on that it's fiction.
07/27/06
Top CriticPepe, 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.
07/27/06
Top CriticThe arc of the Howes' careers looks so much like the autopsies of similar 1970s rock bands that you brace yourself for the inevitable tragic end. And yet, even with the details of their demise more implied than stated, it still stings like real life.
07/27/06
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