DEAD RINGERS

CANADA, USA | 1988 | COLOR | DCP | 115’ | ENGLISH

Unforgettable cinema, at once magnetic and repulsive, Cronenberg’s masterpiece creates a rare atmosphere of awe and culminating gloom, inspired from a true story in order to tell that of a pair of identical twin brothers, and doctors of unorthodox methods (Irons plays impeccably both of them), whose complex but until then undisturbed relationship gradually disintegrates because they both fall in love with an actress. Icy cold, seductively macabre and deeply cutting, like the surgical instruments of his protagonists, ‘Dead Ringers’ describes a complicated brotherly love as a disquieting study on the paradoxical road to an unexplored human Twilght Zone. L.K.

DIRECTOR: David Cronenberg
SCREENWRITERS: David Cronenberg, Norman Snider
DoP: Peter Suschitzky
MUSIC: Howard Shore
EDITOR: Ronald Sanders
PRINCIPAL CAST: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold

DAVID CRONENBERG
The greatest Canadian filmmaker was born in 1943. He studied English Literature, is an avid reader and showed a talent as a writer since he was a kid. Influenced by horror, sci-fi and the underground avant-garde, he is regarded as the pioneer of ‘body horror’, a term however he disagrees with. He has been honored at Cannes and Berlin, suspiciously never at the Oscars.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2022 Crimes of the Future
2014 Map to the Stars
2011 A Dangerous Method
2007 Eastern Promises
2005 A History of Violence
2002 Spider
1996 Crash
1993 M. Butterfly
1991 Naked Lunch
1988 Dead Ringers
1986 The Fly
1983 Videodrome
1981 Scanners
1979 The Brood