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TWIN FALLS IDAHO Send This Review to a Friend
A noteworthy and unusual film, "Twin Falls Idaho," has been directed by Michael Polish. He and his identical twin brother Mark Polish play Siamese twins, Francis and Blake Falls, who face a crisis. Francis is ill and dying, but Blake has the potential to live if separation surgery works.
Along comes Michele Hicks as Penny, who falls in love with Blake. The film is strongest in its first half, as the Polish brothers--Michael co-wrote the script--set a gallows humor tone. It's a nervy film, with a strange mood to match its strange subject matter. I couldn't help but be fascinated.
As the plot develops, the film veers more toward soap opera and stumbles, yet the problem of brothers so close that the prospect of separation by death is more grim than the troubled life they have had to lead is made immediate and moving by the acting and direction. The film was showcased in the 1999 New Directors/New Films series sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
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