Polish art filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure, Fuga) headed to Great Britain to make her first English-language film, and the story of twins June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were the only black women in the community while growing up in Wales in the seventies, is enough at first. promised. However, “The Silent Twins” turned into an excessive and completely unnecessary stylization, an artistic drama that lost practically all meaning. Their parents were originally from Barbados and in the early sixties they moved to Wales where their father worked as a technician at a British military air base. June and Jennifer were the only girls in a school of 1,500 students and were victims of horrific abuse that caused them to completely isolate themselves from society and create a world of their own.
They even invented their own language, refused to communicate with other people, and here we follow their life from childhood to adulthood, i.e. late twenties. Unfortunately, it was performed quite disjointed, confusing and quite chaotic, we constantly jump from one event to another without much explanation and sense, as if Smoczynska wanted to draw the viewer into some inner world of the twins. Unfortunately, she did not succeed in this, but this is still a tragic and sad story because over time they will become completely alienated from the rest of the world and end up in a strictly guarded psychiatric clinic. I expected something more from this film, which tried to be atmospheric and atmospheric, but it turned out to be quite a failure.