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Twice Born
Directed by
Sergio Castellitto
R
2012
2h 7m
Drama
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Romance
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7.3
9%
67%
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Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
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Cast of Twice Born
Penélope Cruz
Gemma
Emile Hirsch
Diego
Adnan Hasković
Gojco
Saadet Işıl Aksoy
Aska
Pietro Castellitto
Pietro
Mira Furlan
Velida
Jovan Divjak
Jovan
Vinicio Marchioni
Gemma's husband
Branko Đurić
Doctor
Jane Birkin
Psicologa
Luca De Filippo
Armando
Sergio Castellitto
Giuliano / Director / Writer / Producer
Bruno Armando
Ginecologo
Moamer Kasumović
Zoran
Sven Medvešek
Marito di Ana
Isabelle Adriani
Giornalista
Mugdim Avdagić
Milan Pavlović
Fausto Russo Alesi
Juan Carlos Vellido
Sanja Vejnović
Gojko mother
Luna Mijović
Danka
Emina 'Minka' Muftić
vicina
Igor Zoric
Bojan
Roberto Sessa
Producer
Twice Born Ratings & Reviews
Way Too Indie
Bernard Boo
The recreation of Sarajevo by art designer Francesco Frigeri is equally staggering and beautiful. It's a shame the rest of the team didn't hold up their end of the bargain.
Under the Radar
Shawn Hazelett
Twice Born wants so desperately to be taken seriously that it creates an unnecessarily complex narrative, void of any chemistry-building moments for its romantic leads.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
It's debatable whether the best love stories are also the "weirdest," as Emile Hirsch's character declares in "Twice Born." But they do require chemistry, the missing piece in his pairing with Penlope Cruz.
Paste Magazine
Brent Simon
The type of cinematic slog one watches and thinks, 'This would actually be much more interesting as a book.' And that makes sense, really, since that's its original medium.
TheWrap
Todd Gilchrist
Sergio Castellitto's film projects a tumultuous love story against the backdrop of the Bosnian War for independence, and then seems unaware that the foreground overshadows it in the worst possible way.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
"Twice Born" chokes to death on its own melodrama.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
Sergio Castellitto's film quickly turns out to be more interested in reveling in the secrets of its storyline than in its sentiments.
Metro
Matt Prigge
This European production is thoroughly cheesy and phony, nowhere less so than in its florid, undeliverable dialogue, which sounds like it's been translated, poorly, from various languages into English.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
Yes, it's all as clunky and tasteless as the description suggests, and the awkward casting doesn't improve this overlong drama.
Detroit News
Tom Long
One odd movie, from the casting of its leads to its backdrop to its final twist.
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
A somber slog that takes far too long to reach its overwrought surprise ending.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Whatever thoughtful instincts Mr. Castellitto might possess are undermined by his addiction to cinematic prettiness.
New York Daily News
Jordan Hoffman
"The weirdest love stories are the best," says Hirsch's doomed poet-warrior. "Twice Born" isn't weird enough to be half-good.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Castellitto clings to the Duraflame fires within for Twice Born, a handsomely crafted but empty feature hoping to recreate Eastern European horror and soap opera intimacy.
RedEye
Matt Pais
When setting a love story in a war-torn environment, it's nice to actually recognize the who, what and why of the conflict.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The viewer has to slog through countless scenes of the two people sulking and arguing, while warfare is tastefully represented in the background.
The Dissolve
Mike D'Angelo
It was doomed before the first scene was shot.
Village Voice
Zachary Wigon
Twice Born irresponsibly appropriates the horrific siege of Sarajevo to serve as aesthetic backdrop for a story that exhibits no real interest in the conflict.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Penelope Cruz and Emile Hirsch play ill-matched - in every sense - lovers in Sergio Castellitto's misguided romantic melodrama.
Variety
Boyd van Hoeij
This mostly English-language tale about the difficulties of parenthood and loving photographers in wartime has little to offer beyond some pitiful twists.
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