Synopsis
In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory. But Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.
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Cast
- Alex LewisSelf
- Marcus LewisSelf
- Andrew CaleyJack
- Kathleen RaineyJill
- Thomas MulhurnYoung Alex
- Luke MulhurnYoung Marcus
- Evan MiltonAlex / Marcus
- Laura ObiolsEmma
Recommendations
- 100
TheWrap
Marked by evolving degrees of miraculous vivacity, dread, despair, and ultimately hope, Tell Me Who I Am reflects a fraternal relationship equally encumbered by truth and lies but strengthened by love and an unflinching revelation in real time. It is utterly staggering. - 90
Film Threat
Tell Me Who I Am is an incredible real-life mystery. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
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, its raw confessional style slightly compromised by niggling narrative gaps and dramatic contrivances. - 75
RogerEbert.com
Their tangible shared pain quickly turns an awkward performativeness into a most genuine therapy session, one that is both disarming and uplifting to observe. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
But 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. - 75
IndieWire
It’s hard to imagine a more crystalline look at the suppleness of someone’s self-identity (and the moral dilemma of someone else choosing to overwrite it) 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. - 70
The New York Times
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. - 70
Los Angeles Times
In its most rewardingly complicated moments, this absorbing, incomplete documentary reminds us that there is nothing definitive about what we think we know.
