More of a gentle exploration than an exacting analysis, Red Without Blue is a tender and bittersweet portrayal of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship. This is the story of Mark and Alex Farley, identical twins from Missoula, Montana. Though the childhood of their photographs was happy and picturesque, by the time they were adolescents, Mark and Alex were enduring difficult times: coming out, their parents’ divorce, their own drug abuse, and a joint suicide attempt that precipitated their two-and-a-half-year forced separation. Upon their reunion, Alex informed a reticent Mark of the decision to transition into a new female body as Clair.

Directors Sills and Sebold investigate issues of reflection, gender, self-loathing, and alienation with a kind lens. Though the film grapples with some heavy themes, it is also one of the best representations of familial love ever documented, as triumphant and hopeful as it is messy and melancholy. What emerges is the portrait of a bond invisible yet immutable, twisted yet immeasurably strong, as the very DNA that links Mark and Clair to one another.

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