Letitia Wright (Black Panther) and Tamara Lawrence (The Long Song) play twin sisters with an eerie past and an uncertain future...
Letitia Wright (Black Panther) and Tamara Lawrence (The Long Song) play twin sisters with an eerie past and an uncertain future in this uneasy, Cannes-selected drama based on a true story from the director of 2015's The Lure.
June (Wright) and Jennifer Gibbons (Lawrence) are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and 80s. Feeling isolated from that unwelcoming community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism inspired by an American boy they both idolise, the girls, now teenagers, are summarily sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
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67 %86 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
76 %25 reviewsAudience score rating
"(A) curious, careering, unshakeable wallop of a film..."
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Variety
Variety"An engrossing, well-acted story – disturbing but also tender and sad."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"A moving and creative story..."
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Slash Film
Slash Film"Smoczynska and Seigel’s interpretation of the material feels off somehow... too preoccupied with surface texture and colour to help viewers truly understand its troubled protagonists."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Ambitious but flawed..."
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Little White Lies
Little White LiesThe Silent Twins | Details
- Rating
- 18, drug misuse
- Runtime
- 113
- Genre
- Drama, True Story & Biography
- Country of origin
- USA, Poland, UK
