
Out on DVD is the bizarre
Goodbye Gemini (Scorpion Releasing). Set in swinging London in the '70s, precocious twins Jacki (
Judy Geeson) and Julien (
Martin Potter) arrive at their father's flat and get rid of the meddling housekeeper by craftily placing their toy teddy bear on the stair landing. She takes a header and is carted off in an ambulance. They are then left to their own demented devices and head to a pub full of decadent swingers and a drag queen disrobing on the bar. There they meet a dissolute couple who unwisely attach themselves to the troubled twosome. The twins are weirdly incestuous and afterJulien is tricked into having a threesome with drag queens in a seedy hotel room the plot unravels into madness and murder. Jacki wanders aimlessly on the streets with a bloody sheet only to be rescued by a slumming politician (
Michael Redgrave). Directed by
Alan Gibson (
The Satanic Rites Of Dracula) and with gorgeous cinematography by
Geoffrey Unsworth (
2001: A Space Odyssey/
Cabaret) this was also known as
Twinsanity on VHS. The DVD unleashes its true beauty and enjoyably nutty oddness.
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