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2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Kevin Rios
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic
Twin sisters Ani and Ale share a fixation on a teen soap and its lead — a parasocial obsession that conveniently fills the silence growing between them. TV and reality start to slide.
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Twins, a teen soap, and a parasocial obsession standing in for the conversation they aren't having. That's a thesis.
Sibling estrangement filtered through parasocial fandom — Rios understands the show is both glue and poison, which is Ingrid Goes West shrunk to a domestic two-hander. Small and exact.
Sibling estrangement filtered through fandom — the show is both the relationship glue and the relationship poison. That dual function is the entire premise and the right kind of compressed.
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Ever encroaching heaviness as TV and reality blur