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- Music BandTwinsSexual RelationsShowbizArtists and ShowbizMind and SoulMusician's LifeRise To the Top more...
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- DramaMockumentaryComedy
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- 20th Century70s
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Brothers of the Head, 2005
English
UK
Profile of Brothers of the Head
The mood of Brothers of the Head is witty, humorous, and clever. The plot centers around twins, a music band, and showbiz. It features dry humor. Brothers of the Head is a drama and comedy movie. Stylistically, it is a mockumentary. In approach, it is realistic. Brothers of the Head is set in Los Angeles and England. It happens in the 20th century.
Summary of Brothers of the Head
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 dramatic potential, which was based on the novel by Brian Aldiss. Recalling Alan Clarke's iconic Sex Pistols biopic SID AND NANCY in its grittiness and the volatile relationship at its core, BROTHERS OF THE HEAD centers on Tom and Barry Howe (real-life twins Harry and Luke Treadaway). Siamese twins recruited at a young age by a sleazy producer, the twins are groomed for a stardom which will inevitably become their downfall. Barry's innate nihilism and anger make him the ideal frontman for the band, while Tom studiously learns the guitar from a bandmate (Bryan Dick). But the brothers' dalliances with drugs, girls, and fame, added to the psychological power struggles already at work between them, eventually put them on the road to destruction. Equal parts homage to rock 'n roll and an insightful character study of a complex relationship, the film fascinates while not taking itself too seriously: Ken Russell's unfinished biopic of the boys is particularly hilarious. The excellent soundtrack of original music by Clive Langer (ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS), actually played by the actors onscreen, tops off this impressive work.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 28 July 2006 |
| Runtime: | 93 min |
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as Tom Howe
as Barry Howe
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- by: Ken Fox
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Sheri Linden
