Twinsters

Name: Twinsters
Genre: Biography, Family, Documentary
Released: July 17, 2015
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 81

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Ignite Channel | Release Date: July 17, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: In February 2013, Anaïs Bordier, a French fashion student living in London, stumbled upon a YouTube video featuring Samantha Futerman, an actress in Los Angeles, and was struck by their uncanny resemblance. After discovering they were born on the same day in Busan, Korea and both put up for adoption, Anaïs reached out to Samantha viaIn February 2013, Anaïs Bordier, a French fashion student living in London, stumbled upon a YouTube video featuring Samantha Futerman, an actress in Los Angeles, and was struck by their uncanny resemblance. After discovering they were born on the same day in Busan, Korea and both put up for adoption, Anaïs reached out to Samantha via Facebook. In Twinsters, we follow Samantha and Anaïs’ journey into sisterhood, witnessing everything from their first meeting, to their first trip back to Korea where their separation took place.… Expand

Director: Ryan Miyamoto and Samantha Futerman

Genre(s): Biography, Family, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Jul 26, 2015

Twinsters is a lively — and quite lovely — take on contemporary notions of family and identity. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Jul 29, 2015

Even more extraordinary than the concept or its conceptualization is how intensely moving an experience it all amounts to. Read full review

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

Jul 16, 2015

Twinsters is an enjoyable ride, made with vigorous love and creativity, which is more than enough reason to recommend it. Especially to siblings. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jul 16, 2015

The overriding effect of Twinsters is a sense of pleasure at having borne witness to emotional epiphanies of the most affecting and intimate sort. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Jul 26, 2015

An affecting emotional journey as well as a telling example of how the fortuitous intervention of social media continues to reshape lives in unexpected ways. Read full review

Sherilyn Connelly

Jul 16, 2015

Twinsters is a heartwarming true story that might not have happened without social media, so score one for modern technology. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jul 16, 2015

The film has too many fits of uncontrolled laughter and other awkwardness that suggest an unedited home movie, but, in general, Twinsters makes for a heartfelt alternative to a traditional documentary approach. Read full review

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cafergy

May 3, 2016

I can't imagine this film being done any better, from structure to camera to tone, it handles a range of subject matter from the simplest of heart connections to the science of twin studies. The beauty of this documentary lies in its natural narrative strength and its ability to develop soI can't imagine this film being done any better, from structure to camera to tone, it handles a range of subject matter from the simplest of heart connections to the science of twin studies. The beauty of this documentary lies in its natural narrative strength and its ability to develop so many themes organically. The portrayal of multiple meanings of identify is handled with profundity. To find parallel version of self in another body with so much commonality in spite of independent development, yet with significant and painful differences that surface and are at least partially healed through love.… Expand

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marcmyworks

Nov 29, 2015

This is the cute and touching story of two girls who find each across the World and across cultures and discover they are twin sisters. Though the film didn't really go very far in telling a deep and profound story, it is sweet and heartwarming. I recommend watching.

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