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Tell Me Who I Am
Directed by
Ed Perkins
TV-MA
2019
85m
Documentary
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Drama
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7.6
97%
86%
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After losing his memory in an accident, Alex Lewis trusts his twin brother, Marcus, to tell him about his past only to discover that he's hiding a dark secret about their childhood.
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Where to Watch Tell Me Who I Am
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Cast of Tell Me Who I Am
Alex Lewis
Self
Marcus Lewis
Self
Andrew Caley
Jack
Kathleen Rainey
Jill
Thomas Mulhurn
Young Alex
Luke Mulhurn
Young Marcus
Evan Milton
Alex / Marcus
Laura Obiols
Emma
Ed Perkins
Director
Simon Chinn
Producer
Tell Me Who I Am Ratings & Reviews
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
An intriguing documentary about twin brothers, amnesia and a filmmaker functioning as a therapist of last resort.
Vogue
Taylor Antrim
You'll watch the last 20 minutes with your heart in your throat.
Crooked Marquee
Eric D. Snider
Their story is fascinating and unsettling, and the film tells it without sensationalism.
Film Threat
Alan Ng
Everything shot and effect is specifically designed to tell this story, and it works brilliantly.
The CriterionCast
Joshua Brunsting
Tell Me Who I Am is a captivating look at two brothers and the grief they live with, and in this character study is a fascinating, unflinching look at love and forgiveness in the face of abject horror.
The Playlist
Christian Gallichio
While "Tell Me Who I Am" doesn't offer any real answers about the role of memory in coping with abuse, it does bring up fascinating questions.
RogerEbert.com
Tomris Laffly
While it's hard to do complete justice to their heartbreaking tale involving a dark, traumatic childhood, Perkins deserves all the credit for treating it with the respect and care that it deserves.
Film Inquiry
Reyzando Nawara
What sets this Netflix documentary apart is the way Perkins compellingly structures this documentary into an ambiguous and haunting mystery drama that asks us whether it is okay to lie to someone you love in order to protect them from lifelong ache.
Pop Culture Leftovers
Brooke Daugherty
Imagine waking up and not knowing who you are, where you are, or the identities of the faces staring back at you. What if you find out the things you have been told are lies?
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
The way this film is constructed is a suspenseful mystery, and eventually it gives way to great catharsis.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
A documentary so harrowing and horrific that it can only bear to scratch at the surface of its remarkable story.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
That Perkins has honed in on such sympathetic subjects makes it almost impossible not to be moved, even if Tell Me often feels less like forensic truth than an intriguing fragment of something that may, in the end, be impossible to tell in full.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Tell Me Who I Am narrowly but successfully pulls it off by letting the brothers delve into the rawness of their relationship.
Variety
Peter Debruge
In a scripted thriller, one can bet that unlocking the source of Alex's trauma would bring all of his memories flooding back. Here, the process merely points the way to an even deeper mystery.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
[I]n its most rewardingly complicated moments, this absorbing, incomplete documentary reminds us that there is nothing definitive about what we think we know.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Dalton
Gripping and moving, despite some tricksy narrative twists.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Perkins shoots the brothers with low-key intimacy and inserts numerous staged scenes reconstructing events.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
Whether absolute healing is ever really possible is the question that hovers over Tell Me Who I Am up to and through its poignant conclusion.
TheWrap
Candice Frederick
Drawing from a startling real life story, director Ed Perkins plants audiences inside a film where mounting mystery climaxes to unsettling concern as we watch an amnesiac grapple with the horrifying reality that is his life.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
By focusing so narrowly on the Lewis brothers' relationship with their mother, the film inadvertently minimizes the scope of their abuse.
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