Three Identical Strangers (12A.)
Directed by Tim Wardle.
Featuring Eddy Galland, Robert Shafran, David Kellman, Evan LeRose, Adrian Lichter and Silvi Alzetta-Reali. 97 mins.
As the title spells out, this is the story of three triplets who were separated at birth, adopted and meet up accidentally. In 1980, Bobby turns up at college and is greeted by everybody as an old friend, specifically an old friend called Eddie. After they meet and their story hits the papers a third identical stranger, David, gets in touch. A nice, amazing story but as this all happens in the first twenty odd minutes you are wondering how they are going to fill the rest of the time. The answer is with a turn for the worst and revelation of the sinister motives behind their separation.
Though the brothers are Jewish and resemble balloon creature versions of Steve Guttenberg, they all look and sound incredibly Italian American, great big horsey guys who might be extras watching Travolta's dancefloor moves in Saturday Night Fever. In the footage of them when they first met up they are like big sausage-fingered children. Which makes it all so much more poignant when it all starts to go wrong for them. Wardle's film is fascinating and disturbing but frustrating in that it can't deliver all the answers audiences want.
Directed by Tim Wardle.
Featuring Eddy Galland, Robert Shafran, David Kellman, Evan LeRose, Adrian Lichter and Silvi Alzetta-Reali. 97 mins.
As the title spells out, this is the story of three triplets who were separated at birth, adopted and meet up accidentally. In 1980, Bobby turns up at college and is greeted by everybody as an old friend, specifically an old friend called Eddie. After they meet and their story hits the papers a third identical stranger, David, gets in touch. A nice, amazing story but as this all happens in the first twenty odd minutes you are wondering how they are going to fill the rest of the time. The answer is with a turn for the worst and revelation of the sinister motives behind their separation.
Though the brothers are Jewish and resemble balloon creature versions of Steve Guttenberg, they all look and sound incredibly Italian American, great big horsey guys who might be extras watching Travolta's dancefloor moves in Saturday Night Fever. In the footage of them when they first met up they are like big sausage-fingered children. Which makes it all so much more poignant when it all starts to go wrong for them. Wardle's film is fascinating and disturbing but frustrating in that it can't deliver all the answers audiences want.
