BROTHERS OF THE HEAD
synopsis
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 were plucked from obscurity by a music promoter who groomed them into a rock-and-roll act. Against all expectations, the boys - performing as The Bang-Bang - quickly appropriated their status as 'freaks' and spat it back in the form of searing, aggressive rock. Grasping at the truth from an array of often unreliable accounts, the story follows the twins as they negotiate love, artistic rivalry, and the cruel suppression of their unique voice. Brothers of the Head investigates our impulse to celebrate the extraordinary, and our tragic compulsion to claim, de-mystify and destroy it.
international title: | Brothers of the Head |
original title: | Brothers of the Head |
country: | United Kingdom |
sales agent: | HanWay Films |
year: | 2006 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe |
film run: | 90' |
screenplay: | Tony Grisoni |
cast: | Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway |
cinematography by: | Anthony Dod Mantl |
film editing: | Nicolas Gaster |
costumes designer: | Marianne Agertoft |
music: | Clive Langer |
producer: | Peter Carlton, Tessa Ross, Kate Ogborn, Simon Channing Williams, Gail Egan, Lisa Marie Russo, Tony Grisoni |
production: | Potboiler Productions |