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Dead Ringers
settembre 23, 1988
I fratelli Mantle sono gemelli identici (ambedue interpretati da Jeremy Irons), brillanti ginecologi. Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) è un’attrice che vorrebbe un figlio. Il responso alla clinica dei Mantle è però negativo: a causa di un problema congenito, non potrà averne. Elliott Mantle è interessato a Claire e va a letto con lei. Poi invita il gemello Beverly a fare altrettanto, senza informarla dello scambio: è una cosa che i Mantle fanno spesso. Beverly però stavolta si innamora. Claire scopre il giochetto e si arrabbia. Beverly ne è amareggiato e si dà all’alcol e alla droga. Tempo dopo Beverly reincontra Claire e i due si mettono insieme, ma ormai la droga sta prendendo il sopravvento e la salute mentale di Beverly peggiora: ossessionato dall’idea delle donne mutanti, commissiona la realizzazione di bizzarri strumenti ostetrici.
Registi
Cast
Jeremy Irons
Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
Geneviève Bujold
Claire Niveau
Heidi von Palleske
Cary
Barbara Gordon
Danuta
Shirley Douglas
Laura
Stephen Lack
Wolleck / Anders Wolleck
Nick Nichols
Leo
Lynne Cormack
Arlene
Damir Andrei
Birchall
Miriam Newhouse
Mrs. Bookman
David Hughes
Superintendent
Richard W. Farrell
Dean of Medicine
Warren Davis
Anatomy Class Supervisor
Marsha Moreau
Raffaella
Denis Akiyama
Pharmacist
Dee McCafferty
Surgeon
Jane Luk
Lecture-Hall Nurse
Jill Hennessy
Mimsy
David Cronenberg
Obstetrician (uncredited)
Bob Bainborough
Mr. Glaser
Troupe
Produzione:
Carol Baum (Executive Producer) — Sylvio Tabet (Executive Producer) — Marc Boyman (Producer) — James G. Robinson (Executive Producer)
Sceneggiatura:
David Cronenberg (Writer) — Norman Snider (Writer)
Musica:
Howard Shore (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia:
Peter Suschitzky (Director of Photography)
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John Chard
8
/10
I've often thought that there should be beauty contests for the insides of bodies.
Dead Ringers is directed by David Cronenberg who also co-adapts the screenplay with Norman Snider from the book "Twins" written by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland. It stars Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold. Music is by Howard Shore and cinematography by Peter Suschitzky.
Identical twin gynaecologists Beverly and Elliott Mantle (Irons) run a high end fertility clinic in the city. Both in tune with each in spite of being different personalities, their world starts to fold inwards when Beverly falls in love with drug dependent actress Claire Niveau (Bujold).
Inspired by the real life story of gynaecologist twins Cyril and Steve Marcus (who were both found dead from suicide brought about by drug addiction), Dead Ringers is an amalgamation of unsettling horror and icy cold playfulness; in other words a perfect canvas for auteur Cronenberg to paint some of his peccadilloes.
Cronenberg doesn't need to be gory, gimmicky or schlocky, he instead utilises the characters on the page to spin a clinical character study. Themes pulsing throughout involve individuality, identity, misogyny, narcissism, eroticism and addiction, all played out in the mystical world of surgery and in-human metaphysics. The tempo never rises above a steady heart beat, rumbling along ominously, until we enter the home straight and the director delivers a devastating yet deeply moving conclusion.
Backed by a stunning dual performance from Irons, and a ballsy one from Bujold, Dead Ringers is a film of genuine greatness and a piece of work that's alive with smart ideas. 8.5/10
talisencrw
9
/10
Sheer brilliance. Deep down, EVERYONE has a love/hate thing about identical twins. On the one side, they wish they had that kind of communion with someone, that sort of magical intimacy they share, having someone basically the exact same as themselves...yet that same one-of-a-kind companionship is scary as hell.
I haven't seen, from my fellow Canadian, either 'Scanners' (1981) or 'Naked Lunch' (1991), so I can't honestly say whether or not my assertion can be thus extended, but I dare ANYONE to find in horror a finer run than Cronenberg had, in 'Videodrome', 'The Dead Zone', 'The Fly'...and this, 'Dead Ringers'.
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4
/10
David Cronenberg reveals himself to be a total pseud. "Our identities blur together. We are one soul." Give me a break
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