Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, the team that directed the captivating documentary, “Lost in the Mancha,” which chronicled director Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated attempt at adapting Don Quixote, have directed what sounds to be a remarkably twisted new film, “Brothers of the Head.” Though the film is fiction, it is based on real-life conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe. The twins, whose mother died during childbirth, and whose father moved the family to the coast of England to avoid public scrutiny, sold the twins to 1970s musical impresario Zak Bedderwick on their 18th birthday. After grooming the duo into a bona fide boy band however, the duo’s fiery artistic passion and frequent fits (and fist fights) with one another, turned their sugary pop into the blistering punk of the Bang Bang.

With the film, Fulton and Pepe have attempted to blur the line between fiction and reality by shooting in a loose, improvisational way that feels like a documentary. Also interesting is the film’s backdrop in 1970s British punk, which the directors read up on prior to filming. “We had to learn a lot,” says Fulton. “Reading Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s book, ‘Please Kill Me,’ was very important to both of us in terms of learning about what the scene was like. We listened to a lot of different music, much of it for the first time. The Nuggets anthology was really important — all of this late ’60s garage band stuff which we felt would have been an influence on the Bang Bang. The kind of grass roots stuff that musicians wanted to recapture in the face of all the early ’70s stadium band fare. Ultimately, though, I think that punk was more about the scene than it was about the music.”

Check out the trailer below, and check out the film when it opens on July 28th.

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