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Twice Born (2012/E One DVD)


Picture: B- Sound: B- Extras: C Film: B+



Gemma (Penelope Cruz) was a wealthy Italian professor, is single mother who wishes to show her son where she met and fell in love with his father. Diego (Emile Hirsch) an American photographer. As she journeys into Sarajevo, she has flashbacks of not only her romance but also the war and heart-ache which tore them apart. As she meets old friends, she has a secret she has been keeping from her son, that she is not his actual birth mother... but then her friend have even a even a bigger secret that they have been keeping from her all these years, a secret that will change both their lives in Sergio Castellitto's Twice Born (2012).


Until she fell in love with the penniless American photographer Diego and was moved by the his free spirit and carefree life of an artist, Gemma has a hot, passionate summer of love (et al) and after their marriage, Gemma discovered she was sterile and unable to produce an heir for Diego. Their only recourse was to pay Diego's friend Aska, to bear a child for them, but when the war came, they became separated. Years later, Gemma returns with her teenage son to show him land where she and her father fell in love with and contemplates to tell him the truth, but her surviving friends held a darker secret from Gemma the truth of what happened to Diego and Aska during the war. That her son was never Diego's child. Aska's child was the result from her being raped by Bosnian soldiers and Diego saved her but can he keep her safe and protect himself?


This was a tragic love story, a story of star crossed lovers, where at first everything seemed perfect believing all you need is love, but reality is even a harsher mistress forced them to face reality and hardships. It was a very symbolic movie as the character Gemma was born twice in the fact each time she came to Sarajevo, first time was when she met Diego and the second time was when she found out the REAL truth about the origin of her son. While story-wise it is a tragedy it also show how love can change and forgive a person over time.


The anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image is really good for this format and lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 mix well recorded and presented for that format. Extras include interviews with cast and trailers.



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