The twin sons of late, great SF novelist Herbert Gold, filmmaker Ari and musician Ethan collaborate on this “live cinema” musical drama, “featuring The Brothers Gold and the People of San Francisco.” Executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, it begins with one extroverted brother running late to join his introverted counterpart for an audition of sorts at Vesuvio’s, across Jack Kerouac Alley from City Lights Bookstore. Soon accompanied by a third singer (Lara Louise), these quarrelsome siblings move on to a couple of equally famed local watering holes. They clomp up Telegraph Hill, engage in minor social intrigue, then finally visit Dad on Russian Hill. This charming experiment, in which nearly everyone plays “versions of themselves,” may recall the likes of Before Sunrise or Medicine for Melancholy. But with a couple big differences: Brother Verses Brother was shot in a single improvisational take, and is filled with performances of Ethan’s endearingly catchy original indie pop tunes. —Dennis Harvey
Ari Gold
Ari Gold is a film director, poet, musician, and founder/president of Grack Films. His movies have screened at Sundance, Telluride, Karlovy-Vary, and hundreds of other festivals, and he has won over 50 prizes, including best film at SXSW (twice). Ari is currently in post-production on his fourth feature, Helicopter,expanding on his Student-Oscar-winning short film about his mother’s death, and featuring legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Previously, he directed a romantic drama called The Song of Sway Lake. His feature debut, air-drum cult comedy Adventures of Power, was called “one of the funniest films in recent years” by NY Magazine.
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