Dead Ringers
by David Cronenberg
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Actor: Genevieve Bujold, Jeremy IronsDirector: David Cronenberg
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Producer: Marc Boyman
Writer: Norman Snider
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 21433
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Claire Niveau is in love with Beverly. Or does she love Elliot? It's uncertain because brothers Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twins sharing the same medical practice, apartment and women - including unsuspecting Claire. In portrayals that won the New York Film Critics Best Actor Award, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists whose emotional dependency collapses into mind games, madness and
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DVD Review: Profound examination of lost sanity, the decline of brilliance unto madness.
Summary: 5 Stars
Like many other known masters of horror like Tobe Hooper or George Romero, David Cronemberg is one of the most renowned and prominent directors working today in the industry. Only few talented filmakers sprang into public consciousness with such audacity and intelligence, from a series of low budget surprising shockers back in the mid 70's , untill today's acclaimed classic masterpieces of all times in modern horror, with the unmistakable mark of a true author, a gifted brilliant talent that explored with authentic passion, the limits and boundaries of hallucination, grotesque, and surrealistic carnal madness.
The difference between Cronemberg and other repected colleagues worth mention, is that he never got caged in the same level of scanning of the genre, he's a dark pioneer, a visionary of the physical and emotional human alterations, showed in both style and aesthetics so gruesome and disturbing, they became the language, the vocabulary of his frosty architecture of fear. He evolved, refusing to stick to a safe formula, exploring with anxiety his great concern throught his always tormented characters: The profound examination of the mind and the descent of the human psyche unto lunacy, along with the dissection and mutation of the flesh, with all the pain, anger and frustration implied, inflicted upon a human soul.
In this horrific drama, Jeremy Irons, i a career performance, plays two twin brothers, Beverly and Elliot Mantle, renowned gynecologist who operate in an exclusive clinic and share a great reputation of brilliant innovators in the field. They also share more intimate aspects like sexual complicity, as the more confident Elliot seduces women and then allows his more shy and introvert brother Beverly to reap the benefits. It all goes down when Beverly falls in love with careless drug addict actress Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold), a new patient with a bizarre gynecological deformity, fascinating the unprevented twin and inducing him to a dangerous addiction to drugs and alcohol along with the separation from Elliot. However, Elliot senses his brother's decline to paranoia and tries to save him, only to fall victim of the same urges. What continues can be described as a surrealist downward spiral of eccentric, raw, and painfuly insane circumstances and consequences, surrounded by a creepy cold atmosphere.
Unlike his previous masterpieces like the astonishing "The Fly", the classic mind-bending visual shocker "Videodrome", or even his first major effort that catapulted him to a cult-following status "Scanners", all outstanding and incredible classics, this movie was the true Cronemberg consecration in his filmaking carrer, he was consolidated as a director, master filmaker and unique author, cementing his path in the industry as an amazing and original creator. All those strong achievements, without the abuse of the trademark gore imagery that shocked audiences worlwide and defined his atrocious and raw portraits of macabre. Not leaving the usual mind-flesh connection still in its glory, with this critically aclaimed masterpiece "Dead Ringers", David Cronemberg proved his value as an artist, leaving the forbidden pleasures and desecrations of the flesh aside, with a new devotion for the obscure corners of the human mind, a real descent to insanity, and the best proof ever filmed that the grisly and sinister special effects were only serving a higher purpose, all the way in his prolific career.
The master of horror-surrealism dominated the sugestion as a form of mind-disturbance, in this almost isolated experience in his filmography, before he retaked the gore and shocking visuals imagery in the diurnal nightmare known as "The Naked Lunch". However, this masterpiece remains as a true portrayal of collapse in a frighteningly believable fashion, and obscure drama about obsession and emotional defects in a disquieting clinical tone, with all the bizarre qualities that turned Cronemberg in a master filmaker, side to side with David Lynch in the description of disturbing, deformed, atmospheric and uncomfortable worlds within human behaviour.
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