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The Silent Twins (2022 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Silent Twins' is a 2022 internationally co-produced biographical drama film directed by Agnieszka Smoczyska from a screenplay by Andrea Seigel, based on the book of the same name by Marjorie Wallace. It stars Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance as twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons, as the film follows their strange tragic lives.
The film had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, under the 'Un Certain Regard' section, on May 24, 2022. It was released in the United States by Focus Features on September 16, 2022.
Premise
Feeling isolated from that unwelcoming community, June and Jennifer Gibbons 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 idolize, the girls, now teenagers, are summarily sentenced to Broadmoor Hospital, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
Cast
* Letitia Wright as June Gibbons
**Leah Mondesir-Simmonds as young June Gibbons
* Tamara Lawrance as Jennifer Gibbons
**Eva-Arianna Baxter as young Jennifer Gibbons
* Nadine Marshall as Gloria Gibbons
* Treva Etienne as Aubrey Gibbons
* Michael Smiley as Tim Thomas
* Jodhi May as Marjorie Wallace
* Jack Bandeira as Wayne Kennedy
* Kinga Preis
* Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Greta Gibbons
* Tony Richardson as Dr. John Rees
* Declan Joyce as George Kennedy
Production
In February 2020 it was announced that Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance has been cast as twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons in the film 'The Silent Twins', based on the 1986 book of the same name by Marjorie Wallace, with Agnieszka Smoczyska set to direct and Andrea Seigel set to write the screenplay, it marks Smoczyska's first English-language film debut. On April 8, 2021 it was announced that Focus Features acquired US distribution rights to the film while parent company Universal Pictures took international distribution rights. Principal photography wrapped in Poland.
Release
'The Silent Twins' had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, under the 'Un Certain Regard' section, on May 24, 2022. It was released in the United States by Focus Features on September 16, 2022. It also made it to 'World Cinema' section of 27th Busan International Film Festival to be screened in October 2022.
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