In anyone's hands but The Lure filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska, The Silent Twins would've been a complete slog. Instead, it's simply frustrating. agracru's review:
Studios: Hire horror filmmakers to direct your dreary based-on-a-shocking-true-crime sludge. It’s the fastest way to make those projects interesting, even if it won’t guarantee they’ll be good. Imagine if, for instance,Focus Features had the right idea hiring Agnieszka Smoczynska for, adapted from journalist Marjorie Wallace’s same-named book about twins June and Jennifer Gibbons.
The problem is that Smoczynska brings her flare in fullest possible force, and this is only enough to steeraway from tedium. Given that films like it tend so often to be tedious, this qualifies as recommendation: Smoczynska has a point of view and a personal sense of style, and neither are forbidden from influencing’ production. But as talented as she is, the sound of her hands banging against the other side of the screen can be heard through most of the film’s 113 minutes.
“Cope” might be generous, especially as the sisters reach their teen years, when June is played by Letitia Wright and Jennifer is played by Tamara Lawrance. But that idea of living death is so fascinating that’ insistence on letting it go by unexplored feels shameful.
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