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10/07/06
Brothers of the Head (2006)
67 %
Reviews Counted: 64 Fresh: 43 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 6.4/10
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As bizarre as it is, this mockumentary about a pair of conjoined rockers is surprisingly poignant and filled with authentic period details.
Rated: 18
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Theatrical Release: 06-10-2006
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 Dod Mantle, which occasionally borders on the abstract, augments a story already rife with... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Luke Treadaway, Tom Bower, Sean Harris, Bryan Dick
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10/06/06
Despite the odd moment of visual bravura, this mockumentary is too aware of its own satirical daring. Consequently, it's never as dark, dangerous or amusing as it thinks.
10/06/06
Top Critic
The credible feel of this film-within-the-film remains an achievement; it’s neither mocking nor parodic and nearly always deadly serious.
10/05/06
Top Critic
Harry and Luke Treadaway give astonishing performances (or rather an astonishing performance), creating a believable physicality for their characters, as well as distinct personalities.
10/05/06
Co-directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe have a gift for making fake footage look like the real deal. But they're not so hot when it comes to simulating human drama.
10/03/06
Top Critic
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
The edgy humor and oddly compelling lead characters make it well worth seeing.
04/08/07
Needed more to counter its "twin" shortcomings: the questionable gimmick and too much lousy music.
03/01/07
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10/30/06
"Brothers" puts a clever and disturbing twist on the self-destructive arc that so many real-life rock bands take.
09/29/06
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09/23/06
What becomes painfully apparent as the drudgery rolls on is that the only freak show here is the movie itself.
09/14/06
No doubt one of the weirdest, most off-beat movies you can see all year, and with a rocking soundtrack.
09/04/06
What's missing is any insight to cut into the twins' opaqueness, which turns the movie into a stylistic experiment without any reason to be.
08/25/06
Fulton and Pepe's double-headed head trip is mostly drab gray matter.
08/21/06
Rock on, but be prepared to be left just a bit frustrated by the near-greatness this perplexing film almost achieves.
08/20/06
Undermined by its form: strange as it ought to be, the mockumentary conventions of the movie make everything strangely familiar.
08/18/06
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