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Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Kiwi entertainment's most irrepressible double act comes to the big screen in Leanne Pooley's documentary - offering a revealing look into the lives of the world's only yodelling lesbian twin country-and-western singers.
Doco uses the Twins' archive of home movies and performance footage, talks in depth to the girls themselves and also their alter egos: Ken and Ken, Camp Mother and Camp Leader, and Prue and Dilly. But this a bigger story, not just charting the career of the two sisters but also the 25 years of seismic social change that accompanied it, as the country struggled to find its national identity.
Starring Jools Topp, Lynda Topp
Directed by Leanne Pooley ('Relative Guilt', 'Try Revolution', 'Being Billy Apple')
Produced by Arani Cuthbert
Cinematographer Leon Narbey, Wayne Vinten
Festivals & Awards People's Choice, Best Documentary at the Toronto Film Festival 2009. Best Feature Film (with a budget under $1million) at the NZ Film & TV Awards 2009. Audience Award winner at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2009.
Music, Documentary, Comedy | 1hr 24mins | Rated (M) | contains offensive language and sexual references | Origin: New Zealand | Official Site »
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You often hear how one of the most important things about local films is getting our stories up on screen. If that is truly one of the main factors in determining the cultural worth of New Zealand’s cinematic output, then this documentary is amongst the elite.
What at first appears to be a celebrity biopic soon branches out to be a travelogue of the defining moments in this country’s recent history. It never descends into a dry classroom lesson – a testament to the charismatic presence of the Twins themselves. They have a rare talent for accentuating the comic elements of any given situation, no matter how serious they may first appear.
Likeable mockumentary segments, in which the Twins discuss themselves via various characters, are structured around a recent concert performance that is a brief history of their own lives and a tribute to those who have impacted upon it. The country and western nature of the songs might leave some cold but the way they hold the audience in the palms of their hands is a joy to behold. Like the film itself, it’s a great mix of laughter and heartfelt emotion.
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Christchurch Press (Margaret Agnew)
Very funny, very moving… guaranteed to leave the theatre with a spring in your step and a song in your heart.
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NZ Herald (Russell Baillie)
4
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might just yodel.
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Otago Daily Times (Christine Powley)
5
They were radicals singing about changing the world and the only person each twin was interested in entertaining was the other. Times change and that is the other fascinating thing about this film - just how much we as a nation have changed in their wake, allowing the old-time radicals to become cuddly Kiwi icons.
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The Listener (David Larsen)
Funny, moving, richly intelligent study of the Topps’ life and times...
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TV3 (Kate Rodger)
4
This lovely little doco will warm the cockles of any heart, and made me feel proud to call myself a Kiwi.
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