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Thekla Reuten,
Thekla Reuten,
Nadja Uhl,
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Ben Sombogaart,
Ben Sombogaart
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: Miramax
: Drama, Foreign, Germany, Netherlands
: 118 min.
: English
: English, Spanish, French
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Dutch family-oriented filmmaker Ben Sombogaart directs De Tweeling (Twin Sisters), based on the best-selling novel by Tessa de Loo. Using black-and-white and color film stocks to establish the interwoven time periods, the story concerns twin sisters who grow up during WWII. In 1926, orphans Lotte and Anna are separated and forbidden to contact each other. Lotte is taken in by a wealthy Dutch couple to recover from tuberculosis and Anna is sent to work on a farm in Germany under the aegis of her uncle. Each woman becomes romantically involved with a different suitor; when the war breaks out, both sisters lose their men. The socioeconomic differences between their experiences drive them to opposite sides of the battlefront once war breaks out. Years later, they reencounter each other again and face the difficult prospect of a long-delayed reconciliation. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
September 24, 2005 - 11:49 AM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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Based on a famous Dutch novel, this filmed version of TWIN SISTERS was one of the five "Best Foreign Film" nominees for 2004's Academy Award. It's a good but not great adaptation: fascinating for the first hour, less so as the second progresses because the filmmakers (perhaps in telescoping the novel) are reduced to a few too many clichés, particularly regarding the reason for the sisters' break--which is never adequately justified.
Visually, however, the film's a treat. The two actresses who portray the twin sisters from late teens to early middle age are quite good, and the sets, costumes and WWII sensibility is on-the-mark. There are ironies aplenty, too, which helps keep the viewer slightly off-guard and less likely to make the usual knee-jerk reactions that accompany tales of Germany, The Netherlands, and the war. |
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