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Indivisibili (2016)

100 min · Drama

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Directors

Edoardo De Angelis

Cast

Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo, Massimiliano Rossi, Tony Laudadio, Marco Mario de Notaris

Two conjoined singing sisters seek the possibility of separation while their family fears losing its livelihood.

The story

Daisy and Viola are Neapolitan conjoined twins who sing at local festivals, baptisms, and weddings. Their family pushes them into performing and profits from their condition, treating the sisters as sideshow attractions. When Daisy and Viola discover that they may be able to undergo separation and pursue separate lives, their family resists. Afraid of losing the income the sisters bring in, their relatives confront them with a moral ultimatum, setting the sisters’ desire for independence against the family’s financial interests.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Daisy and Viola are Neapolitan conjoined twins who work as singers at local festivals, baptisms, and weddings, pushed into it by their family, who want to profit from their condition. The whole family—their mother, father, and uncle—lives off exploiting the girls, who are treated like sideshow attractions. One day, the sisters discover that they may be able to be separated, allowing each of them to go her own way, but their family confronts them with a moral ultimatum, afraid of losing a valuable source of income.

Genres

Drama

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