Imagination often bucks up against the cold, hard nature of reality, and it’s in this schism that Agnieska Smoczyńska’s “The Silent ... writing and storytelling. Though the twins rarely ...

The movie brings their fantastical, melancholy writing to life in stop-motion ... A poster for “The Silent Twins,” starring Tamara Lawrance (left) and Letitia Wright. The film tells the ...

They are silent, their heads are bowed, engaged in a battle of wills against the world. The twins decide to enroll in a writing correspondence course, which is both their salvation and their downfall.

“The Silent Twins” is a creative, quirky and fantastical biopic of June and Jennifer Gibbons, British twins from Wales who communicated only with each other and through their creative writing.

But they chose writing words and decided to communicate ... The pair became the subject of Wallace’s 1986 book “The Silent Twins,” which drew on interviews, diary entries and observation ...

The Silent Twins (now on Amazon Prime Video ... take a by-mail creative writing course and submit their work to publications. They interpret the rejection letters as a need to experience life ...

When June and Jennifer are ensconced in their room, taking turns writing stories on a manual typewriter and acting out fantasies with handmade puppets, “The Silent Twins” takes big leaps of ...

Tamara Lawrance and Letitia Wright in ‘The Silent Twins’. Focus Features ... the complexity of character” and for writing a screenplay that unfolded like “flowers that blossom”.

But they chose writing words and decided to communicate ... The pair became the subject of Wallace’s 1986 book "The Silent Twins," which drew on interviews, diary entries and observation to ...