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Dead Ringers

I is for Irons
Screening on Film
Directed by David Cronenberg.
With Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi von Palleske.
Canada, 1988, 35mm, color, 115 min.
Print source: HFA

This bizarre psychological thriller from horror director David Cronenberg chronicles the perverse relationship that develops between identical-twin gynecologists with very different personalities. The twins share everything, including an apartment and a fertility clinic, but a hedonistic actress enters their lives and drives a wedge between them for the first time. Cronenberg’s study of identity, sadomasochism, narcissism, and misogyny features a deliciously virtuoso double performance by Jeremy Irons, who dispenses precise doses of black humor and camp creepiness.

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