Tell Me Who I Am

"True-story tale Tell Me Who I Am has one hell of a hook. As a teenager, Alex woke up from a motorcycle incident with almost total amnesia. Unable to remember his own name, Alex somehow recognised his identical twin Marcus immediately. This miraculous moment of #twinning fascinates and their seemingly otherworldly connection recalls last year’s superb Three Identical Strangers. However, as the only person able to fill in Alex’s missing memories, Marcus tainted the kinship when he showed signs of being an unreliable narrator."

"In the documentary, the director appears to be interviewing the twins separately, but he’s really just filming them as they recite their own story. They’ve chosen their words carefully; they cry on cue; and they share just enough, while holding back an enormous amount of information."

"Their moment of resolution at the end is very moving, but the movie also testifies that while love and forgiveness can ameliorate suffering, it can’t really wipe it all away."

"The truth, when it does come out, is devastating — to the point that it can feel invasive to watch such a profoundly private moment unfold on camera for our benefit."

"It’s hard to imagine a more crystalline look at the suppleness of someone’s self-identity than Ed Perkins’ Tell Me Who I Am, a documentary so harrowing and horrific that it can only bear to scratch at the surface of its remarkable story."

"This remarkable true story is a finely crafted exercise in slow-building suspense, though it works better as a gripping mood piece than as journalistic investigation..."