A Brilliant Conflict

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

After a long time writing a review, actually a short one. I thought I have watched almost all great heart wrenching drama about the people around the devastating destruction of WWII. But I guess I was wrong.''De Tweeling'' aka ''Twin Sisters'' is an absolute tear jerker. Story of two orphan twin sisters who were separated at childhood, one lived in Holland living a posh life and other had to live in Germany in a severe abusive atmosphere. WWII came, altered their lives in a most possible devastating way one can imagine. This is a story of love, heartbreak, tragedy and war in an epic proportion. As you can see its based on a worldwide best-seller, its almost impossible to portray and bring up the story in big screen by its level and proportion, they did a very fine job. And perhaps this is the best Dutch production I have seen so far.Don't want to give any spoiler, so I shouldn't go any further I guess. But the actresses performed the twin sisters in different stages of life did excellent job. One of them will remind u the prime period of 'Audre Hepburn' and wouldn't that be extra something !Story evolves from different point of view. It will make you asking the question again and again whether the normal people of Germany really knew what was really going on ? Why did they march under someone as crazy as Hitler ?? Did they really have any other choice ?? I will leave them out for the audience.The choices we make shapes our life and defines who we really are . But under different circumstances, would we make the same kind choices ?? Is it really up to us or we are the victim of our surroundings ?

I almost didn't watch this when I realized it would likely be a WWII Jewish victim movie. Don't get me wrong....I am 60 and have watched these things all my life but I am simply tired of them-- I have OD'd on them. There is never a bad Jewish character in them and the Germans are made out as bad as possible in a cartoon fashion.The most effective anti Nazi movies I have watched are in fact their own propaganda movies you can see through them easily. There is a good one on the Warsaw Ghetto and Vichy France.I am gay I might have been gassed too. Yes I believe the Holocaust happened for your information. (I was asked that when I told someone my view on these movies).This movie about 2 twin sisters separated early in life Lotte and Anna is actually a very moving movie. Unfortunately it has too much of the PC stuff I am talking about to be a really breakout film. Disheven German officers shooting baby animals and so forth. But unbelievably it had a very sympathetic German couple in it. In fact the German Actors playing Anna and her Husband were far better actors (and better looking) than the Dutch ones playing Lotte and David--just a fact.It would get about a 7 if the PC filters were not needed as they are it gets a 5. Put some PC filters on and and give it time it is slow moving in the beginning. It will make you cry. It is estimated that 72 million civilians and troops were killed during WWII it is useful to remember them so their suffering was not in vain.RECOMMEND

Twin Sisters carries so much promise to be a one of the great Holocaust-related movie pieces, while being unique in that it touches none of the gory parts of war but with enough sentimental value and focus on the consequences of complicated family relationships.However I was not impressed - it looked like an average movie to me in the end because it lacked a lot of kick that I expected but did not materialize, given the weight of the subjects matter.One of the major flaws - I was quite disappointed that the (adult) sisters lacked the enthusiasm or chemistry in certain very critical scenes. Not knowing each other for so long was not a good enough excuse for this flaw, because the sisters apparently had better chemistry with their male partners during their own first encounters? The arc involving the old version of the sisters looked like a mere filler to me as I believe the movie chose to detract focus on the present and dwell more in the past, a big mistake, as they could have demonstrated more via a longer last-chance reconciliation meeting.This was an obvious contrast to the child versions of the sisters who were better actors in my opinion, as the kid actors had demonstrated strong raw emotions and worries towards each other characters despite being miles apart, and that was when the movie was at its best (looked like a 4.5 star at that point).

In 1926, in Colony, Germany, the twin sisters Anna and Lotte Bamberg are separated after the death of their parents. Anna stays in Germany with her ignorant catholic uncle and aunt in their small property, and Lotte, with tuberculosis, moves to Holland. Anna is not sent to school, to work in the farm, while Lotte is raised by an upper class family having good education. They do not have any contact with each other, but near the World War II they meet each other. Later Anna marries a young SS officer, while Lotte is engaged of a Jewish musician. Their lives follow different and opposite paths with the war.Based on the Dutch bestseller novel written by Tessa de Loo, the Oscar nominated "De Tweeling" is a magnificent movie. The dramatic story of these twin sisters, forced to a separation in their childhood, and following parallel lives due to WWII, is very sad, but never corny. I felt very sorry for the suffered character of Anna, and in the end I was very sad with this touching and sensitive movie. The direction and performance of this unknown cast is amazing and this movie is a must-see. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Irmãs Gêmeas" ("Twin Sisters")