The “scissors - act”
Wolfgang Büld’s blood-drenched thriller “Twisted Sisters”
“…the “good” girl’s husband drives into the village nearby to get some food and drinks for breakfast…he even purchases a bottle of red wine …on returning to their cottage down on the beach he finds his young wife leaning in the doorway. He can hardly believe his eyes. Could this be his wife, the same woman he’s left just a little while ago… she opens her orange-colored morning gown, the one in which he finds her so irresistibly attractive, and he follows her as she slowly slides into the whirlpool, having …“something else but breakfast” on her mind…”
When we see this sequence, pretty much near the end of the movie, we already know this is not one of the usual “seduction scenes” of everyday - marriage life, simply because the title of this movie is “Twisted Sisters”.
It tells us the story of twin sisters, one of them leading an average “normal” life (she works 9:00 – 5:00, has a “mild-mannered” husband and the prospect of becoming a mother soon ), while the other searches the bars and railway stations at night, chatting and picking up men only to give them her “special treatment”.
Wolfgang Büld’s lustful play with the “classic” elements of a psycho thriller gets the viewer into the mood right from the very start when he presents us that fabulous mirror-scene in which his star Fiona Horsey – she caused a stir in his previous production “Penetration Angst” and you can hardly get enough looking at her – introduces herself as the “saint on high-heels”.
She delivers an extra-ordinary, glamorous performance and outplays her male co-actors, making them appear even more-than-usual “sexist” and “dirty old man - like” , the investigators included.
Fiona Horsey is the lucky break of Büld’s career and their relation is comparable to that legendary relation, Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich shared in the days gone by.
Wolfgang Büld also shares the spirit of independence with Sternberg.
He produced mainstream comedies , the “Formel Eins” movie and the famous “Punk in London” music documentary, which actually led him to move his production activities into “his” city.
His movies have been released on DVD and shown at cinemas nationwide simultaneously, the same kind of strategy Steven Soderbergh uses to break the U.S. market.
“Twisted Sisters” is in the cinemas in Germany right now and will be released on DVD in March.
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