Dead Ringers18

Directed by David Cronenberg | Canada/USA | 1988 | 1h 55m | Starring Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack

Psychological thriller following the lives of twin doctors Elliot and Beverley who routinely trade each others’ identities, lives, and lovers. When Beverley falls in love with a patient, a schism develops between the two brothers sending them to the brink of madness. Jeremy Irons plays the role of both brothers in David Cronenberg’s award-winning psychosexual study of the relationship between body and the mind.

Reviews

‘An intense psychological drama which confronts [Cronenberg’s] familiar preoccupations — fear of physical and mental disintegration, mortality, the power struggle between the sexes — without the paradoxical protection of visceral disgust.’
Nigel Floyd, Time Out

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