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By Lovia Gyarkye. What is life without his other half? So far not great. The funeral for Rocky is an awkward affair. Mourners line up to offer Roman and his mother Lauren Graham condolences only to start crying the moment they come face to face with the living twin. The film boasts an off-kilter tone — think the absurdity of Problemista meets the wry sensibility of The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed — that shocks before it settles.

Like Julio Torres and Joanna Arnow, Sweeney walks a tightrope, shifting between dry humor, gutting devastation and emotional poignancy with varying degrees of success. But even when Twinless falters, it always steadies itself and succeeds in other ways. Venue: Sundance Film Festival U.

His protagonists are anxious, confession-prone young people in search of connection. For the spoiler averse, now is the time to abandon ship. After the funeral, Roman joins a support group for now-twinless siblings. The bereaved participants, led by Charlotte a scene stealing Tasha Smithgather in a spare multimedia room to process their loss.

The two bond as only grieving people can, relying on each other, at first for small errands and then for emotional support. Roman mourns the ways he will never get to know Rocky, who was gay, extroverted and well-travelled, and recalls how they rarely talked about anything before he died. Their phone calls stayed on the surface; their last conversation was about socks.

Sweeney stages these early scenes with the intimate awkwardness and humor of a tender buddy comedy.

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A blunt cut the precise editing is by Nik Boyanov shifts the mood. The opening credits roll and the perspective changes from Roman to Dennis. It turns out Dennis knew Rocky before he died: We see the two spend a glowing evening together, having sex and exchanging secrets. Dennis admits to an obsession with twins and to nursing a Parent Trap -esque fantasy as a child to stave off loneliness.

A smart makeover — Rocky has a mustache and style beyond black sweatshirts and jeans costume design is by Erin Orr — helps cinch this metamorphosis. Although not himself a twin, Sweeney seems to have deeply considered the special bond between such siblings and deftly combines those observations with his own musings on loneliness.

What makes Twinless special and surprisingly compassionate is how this director handles grieving characters. He tends to Roman, who demonstrates surprising levels of emotional intimacy, and Dennis, whose compulsions slowly start to read more as sad desperation. The two sit across from each other, and in a moment of obvious but affecting transference, the usually restrained twin lets out a torrent of emotion.