Bucking Fastard
The film
Two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.
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The Real Review
It's a very divisive, mostly weird-positive watch, and Werner Herzog's polarizing style is the reason. Kate and Rooney Mara are praised for their compelling, unsettling performances as the freakishly close sisters, but the surreal, meandering story loses people who call it thin and pretentious. For fans of the director's bizarre vision, it's a hit, but anyone expecting a conventional plot will probably walk away frustrated.
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