Leah Land

Twitch is reviewed by Independent Film during the Woodstock Film Festival

“Gynecology and Guns: The Woodstock Film Festival’s Exploration of Gender Depiction in Short Film”
October 5 2005

Twitch tells the poignant story of a young girl torn between two worlds: her domestic life where she must care for her wheelchair-bound mother and her escape into the emerging world of sexuality with her eager, hormone-addled boyfriend. Concerned that her mother’s disability is contagious due to her own twitching leg, the young girl seeks out advice from her gynecologist who feebly allays her fears. The director’s own mother, a victim of MS, plays the mother with a stark reality that is haunting to watch, and Emma Galvin, who plays the daughter, captures the girl’s struggles with an understated command that belies the hidden turmoil of adolescent angst that tortures her character.

- Patricia Freeman
Independent Film

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