I've never seen a movie quite like "Brothers of the Head." It's a documentary about a pair of conjoined twins who were plucked
from obscurity in 1974 and made into rock stars. Over the course of their short-lived fame, indie filmmaker Ken Russell cast them in a movie called "Two Way Romeo," and "Brothers of the Head" includes clips from it, with Russell on hand to introduce them. Except that it's all fiction. There were never any Siamese-twin rock stars, much less ones that Ken Russell cast in a film. The "Two Way Romeo" clips are fake, and Russell is playing along with the joke. This is a mock-rockumentary, then, based on a Brian Aldiss novel and directed by the team of Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. That duo's previous film is "Lost in La Mancha," an actual documentary about Terry Gilliam's failed attempts to make a film about Don Quixote. The co-writer of Gilliam's Don Quixote movie was Tony Grisoni, whom Fulton and Pepe tapped to adapt the Aldiss novel to make "Brothers of the Head." So it all comes full circle, you see.
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