Francis Ford Coppola Boards SXSW Pic ‘Brother Versus Brother’ As Executive Producer
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola has boarded Brother Verses Brother as executive producer. The Ari Gold-directed drama has its world premiere today at SXSW.
Inspired by Coppola’s concept of Live Cinema, Gold embarked on a radically personal musical odyssey alongside real-life twin, Ethan Gold.
As their characters search for their father across the great and troubled city of San Francisco, they paint a vision of Bohemian culture, blending cinema with reality to create a dream of the comedy and pathos of modern America.
The actors around them, all playing fictionalized versions of themselves, engage in improv as the narrative feature follows combative and co-dependent twin musicians as they hunt for their dying poet father in and around San Francisco. “When I read Francis Ford Coppola’s book Live Cinema and Its Techniques, one paragraph struck me like a thunderbolt: ‘I have always loved when art works are what they are about.
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