Identicals Fiction Edinburgh International Film Festival Best of Fest & Nominated for Michael Powell award International Film Festival Rotterdam Critics Choice L’Etrange Film Festival Paris Opening film & International Competition Sao Paulo International Film Festival Official Selection Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. None of us are as unique as we think. Working with Simon is like playing a board game with a good friend: exciting, brain-wrecking and just a damn good time. Simon is a director that isn’t afraid of using every tool in the box: animation, documentary, even architectural scans and x-rays, whatever works. At the same time he is very receptive to other people’s creativity, but always remains in charge of the main focus. With Identicals as well as his earlier feature Shock Head Soul, I felt a lot of freedom to experiment and play around in his sandbox. "Identicals is a rich and allusive work, intellectually ambitious and visually arresting. Rich in possible meanings, and possessed by a haunting strangeness that lingers long after the credits fade." Stephen Dalton - The Hollywood Reporter "The elliptical edit[…] really sucks you into its web of control, dragging you through the looking glass as you glimpse the character’s descent into madness. Meaning that by the end, you’re locked in a world of sneering doubles and troubling dream-like logic and it really proves to be a sinister delight." Thomas Humphrey - Cineurope "Brilliant, a stunning, mindbending sci-fi thriller about one man's search for the perfect woman that out–Dicks Philip K. Dick, deserves to win the Michael Powell, best British Sci–Fi of the year." David Watson - Movie Ramblings Directed by Simon Pummell With Lachlan Nieboer, Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood and Tony Way Produced by Hot Property, Rinkel Film Soundmixing Roger Goula Camera Reinier van Brummelen Grading Barend Onneweer Edited on Avid Media Composer Running time 100 min Release date 2015
