Brothers of the Head, Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton, USA, 2004, colore, 35 mm, 93′ | 2005 Neon
Brothers of the head cerca di ricostruire, a partire da una serie di racconti spesso inaffidabili, la storia dei gemelli siamesi Tom e Barry Howe – freaks divenuti idoli proto-punk. Nei primi anni ’70 gli Howe, ancora adolescenti, emergono dall’anonimato grazie ad un promoter musicale che li trasforma nella band rock’n’roll The Bang-Bang. Sfruttando la loro diversità e attraverso la loro musica ribelle, i gemelli conosceranno ben presto il successo e tutte le amarezze che lo accompagnano.
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Brothers of the Head, grasping at the truth from an array of often unreliable accounts, narrates the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe – a freak show turned proto-punk sensation. As teenagers in the early 1970s, the Howe twins are plucked from obscurity by a music promoter who groom them into the rock-and-roll act The Bang-Bang. The boys quickly appropriate their status as ‘freaks’ and spit it back in the form of aggressive rock. They soon experience success and all the bitterness that comes with it.
