Twins Jennifer (left) and June Gibbons with journalist Marjorie Wallace, author of “The Silent Twins.” PA Images via Getty Images. Jennifer and June’s parents were from Barbados, and the ...

These are the details that have been well-documented for years before “The Silent Twins,” director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s new film about the Gibbons sisters starring Letitia Wright and ...

The Gibbons twins, in turn, retreat inward, both to their bedroom and to each other, taking on speech patterns and language that feel entirely their own. Read Next ...

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Imagine a world where the only person you talk to is your twin. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE SILENT TWINS") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As June Gibbons) I can't bear life without my ...

June and Jennifer Gibbons, famously known as the “Silent Twins,” shared a unique and tragic bond that fascinated and baffled the world. Born in 1963 to a Barbadian family and raised in Wales ...

Jennifer Gibbons (Tamara Lawrance, left) and her twin sister June (Letitia Wright) enjoy spirited, creative lives when alone but fall mute in the presence of others in “The Silent Twins.” ...

Adapted by Andrea Seigel from the 1986 book by Marjorie Wallace, “The Silent Twins” is a creative, quirky and fantastical biopic of June and Jennifer Gibbons, British twins from Wales who ...

But in director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s “The Silent Twins,” based on the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, everyone involved wanted to ensure that a sense of humanity came through in ...

They play identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons as children. It’s hard to tell them apart. A soft camera focus imprints one face next to the other.

The Gibbons Twins are the subjects of the film “The Silent Twins.” June and Jennifer were raised in a part of Wales where their family was the only Black family.