We’re Twins & We Share the Same Husband and Sleep with Him on Alternative Nights
Kate and Rooney Mara play synchronized sisters whose obsessive bond and courtroom dispute drive Werner Herzog’s latest fable.
- Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, Werner Herzog's "Bucking Fastard" stars sisters Rooney Mara and Kate Mara as Irish siblings who speak, think, and move in eerie, exact synchronization.
- Herzog reimagined the characters from the real-life story of Yorkshire sisters Freda and Greta Chaplin, exploring their mysterious bond and perceived "holy fool" status within his broader body of work.
- Jeanie and Joanie Holbrook appear as defendants in a court hearing after neighbor Gareth Mulroney, played by Orlando Bloom, filed a restraining order; Judge Simon Delaney allows both sisters to testify simultaneously.
- The sisters relocate to the city, staying with neighborhood acquaintance Mr. Westmoreland, portrayed by John Kavanagh, who is appalled that tabloids branded them "the love-crazed sisters."
- Critics find the narrative "cinematically dull" and lacking the obsessive drive of Herzog's earlier classics like "Grizzly Man," reflecting his shifting directorial approach in recent fiction work.
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Herzog calls the film "unique in film history." Orlando Bloom plays a neighbor who is involved in an obsession characterized by a ban on contact and arson.
After all, the film is by old master Werner Herzog. He shows the cheerful world flight of two Irish sisters, who always speak their sentences together. A fight announcement to the banal single man's everyday life. And: really funny.
The mythical director returns to his cinema of unique characters, unpredictable animals and deep caves to present a delicate and disconcerting rarity stopped in his own astonishment Read
The sisters work righteously for the first time thanks to this mysterious film about the abyss to the truth
'Bucking Fastard' Review: Kate and Rooney Mara's Twin Schtick Only Gets You Halfway
Once upon a time, Werner Herzog became a meme. He never exactly sought out web stardom — Herzog is nothing if not analog — but the German filmmaker has cultivated a public persona that’s proved remarkably durable across two decades of online riffing: the unflappable adventurer, a deadpan Don Quixote who meets gunshot wounds, bear attacks and life’s general chaos with the same bemused fatalism. Manna from heaven for Internet geeks and improv comi…
‘Bucking Fastard’ Review: Kate and Rooney Mara Embrace the Weirdness in Werner Herzog’s Nutty but Thin Tale of Two Sisters Who Behave as One
Kate and Rooney Mara play sisters who speak and act in unison in 'Bucking Fastard,' Werner Herzog's fable about siblings on a restless quest for love.
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