Give Me Your Hand

French director Pascal-Alex Vincent has won much praise for this debut feature, a road movie about twin 18-year-olds hitch-hiking across France to attend the funeral of their mother. The boys are played by Victor and Alexandre Carril, twins who are eerily alike. They have moody, high-cheekboned presence; the tensions between the two are plausible and the movie always looks good with an inspired comic-book animated opening sequence, but there is something preposterous about the leads and their smouldering emotions.