Identical twins Angela and Marianna Fontana play conjoined twins Viola and Daisy, a novelty singing act in the impoverished, highly religious culture of southern Italy. They are the family breadwinners, managed by their father, who writes their songs, shapes their image, and hustles new gigs, including a partnership with an ambitious priest who wants to use the girls to promote a new church. And then Daisy learns that, contrary to what their father has told them all their lives, the pair can be safely separated and lead normal lives, so they run off to find the money needed for the operation. Filmmaker Edoardo De Angelis’s meandering film is like a mercenary fable, with the girls as innocents used by authority figures for their own ends, sentenced to a life of being literally joined at the hip to profit off novelty. The girls have very different personalities and don't even agree on the surgery (the religious Viola embraces their connection while the headstrong Daisy wants a solo life to experience travel and sex), but they are devoted to one another. Indivisible explores issues of objectification, exploitation, and autonomy in a world of superstition, hardship, and chauvinistic control, and while the metaphors are obvious the film is also effective, largely thanks to the performances of the Fontana twins, who convey the sisterly love that connects them beyond flesh and bone. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)
Indivisible
Kino Lorber, 104 min., in Italian w/English subtitles, not rated, DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray: $34.99 Volume 33, Issue 6
Indivisible
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