Product Details

• Directors: Brooke Sebold, Todd Sills, Benita Sills
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cinema Libre
• DVD Release Date: October 2, 2007
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000USSHZW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,328 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Probing the close yet emotionally fraught relationship between two gay identical twins this intimate documentary examines the troubled history of Mark and Alex (which includes a double-suicide attempt) as well as their problematic present. As one of them prepares to undergo a sex-change operation the film explores the meaning of sexual identity and its effect on family relationships. Genre: DRAMA UPC: 881394103429 Manufacturer No: CLS1034

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly Moving!, November 17, 2007

By	Robert Whirry "Welcome Palms!" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's not surprising that Red Without Blue may make some viewers uncomfortable, especially those who are used to films that explore only the struggle and difficulties that transgender people face. And for the first 20 minutes or so of Red Without Blue, you believe that this is exactly the kind of film you are watching. But then, something remarkable begins to happen. This family that has begun the film in a state of chaos and dissention begins, against all expectations, to HEAL. The process is slow, and unfolds in remarkable and unexpected ways. A father who is at first distant and removed slowly rediscovers and comes to re-value the depth of the love he has for his twin sons (one of whom is now becoming his beautiful daughter). A mother who is emotionally brittle and at times even contemptuous of her transgender child gradually comes to accept the new reality that has entered her life, in part through the near-miraculous appearance of another transgender woman in her own Montana town who helps her movingly learn that she is not so much losing a son as gaining a daughter. And two brothers who begin the film having lost the deep connection of love and trust which has bound them together in the past slowly come to rediscover and re-forge that bond.

It's a narrative trajectory that few, if any films exporing the transgender experience have charted before, and you get the feeling that it's one the filmmakers themselves didn't see coming. Yet I believe the story this film tells is also a valid part of the transgender experience - the story of a family initially ripped apart by a new reality that comes to realize that the love that binds them is more important than the changes tearing them apart. That this film becomes a testament to the fact that families CAN heal, and that there are actually some trajectories in life that go upward instead of downward, makes this a film to treasure, and one I found deeply moving.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Compelling and unique, November 21, 2007

By	AIROLF (USA) - See all my reviews

A fascinating and unique documentary about twins, one gay and one a transgendered. The hardships that both of them have to go through in dealing with life and with developing romantic relationships and friendships with their family and among themselves are worth watching. This movie makes a heterosexual person who is happy in her skin realize how good she has it and how confusing and difficult it is for someone who isn't in today's society. It's impossible to imagine how much harder it must be for a twin, one of a whole to deal with the entire issue. This movie is an interesting study into one's family struggle and the coming of realization that they are a family and the only thing that matters is that they must stick together through better or worse.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating!, November 2, 2007

By	Mal Schoen (Northern California) - See all my reviews

I first viewed this movie at a premiere in San Francisco with the stars and filmmakers in attendance - it was such a fascinating movie that I knew I wanted to own it when it came out on DVD. I ordered it from Amazon and thoroughly enjoyed it again. This story of identical twin boys, one who grew up gay, the other who grew up transsexual and transitioned to becoming female, illuminates an interesting variation on the human experience. Well-made!