Poto and Cabengo

Nonfiction presented like a magic show. The film offers a mystery, captivates with powerful, often messy scenes that stand as testaments to youth, play, and spirit, and then concludes in a complex cloud of wonder and melancholy.

A poignant experience - more for the sensitivity and care put into documenting these remarkable little girls, rather than actual attention to science and reason. It paints a picture more of their life, rather than their minds, to enable you to emotionally react with them. Certainly remarkable.

a really neat little documentary about little twins who, having grown up in a bilingual and isolated environment, communicate with each other in an english so twisted it is beyond recognition to anyone else. explores linguistic concepts, familial relations and societal reactions in relation to the two girls and their self-styled dialect. sometimes gorin digresses a bit much, so some bits are more engaging than others, but overall really cool and interesting.

Há 40 anos o filme de Gorin tinha sua première em New York. Documentário interessantíssimo, sobretudo para linguistas e psicólogos, sobre as meninas que inspiraram a personagem Nell interpretada pela Jodie Foster em 1994. PirateBay.

There's some bias here since I just find the subject endlessly fascinating to begin with, but Gorin presents it all in a way that displays his own (similar) fascination with the twins. Maybe not the most poetic documentary (or whatever) but it's one in which in the execution matches that of the mystery in life.

The idea that a twins made up their own language was fascinating, but the film had little surprises and seemed fairly predictable.