From Omeleto.
Twin sisters go on a hike.
NEVER GETTING RID OF ME, B-TCH is used with permission from Olivia Rose Prince and Bella Rose Prince. Learn more at https://instagram.com/the_prince_sisters.
Kinley and Willow are twins on a mountain trek together. It’s the last hike before one of them moves away, which will likely change their dynamic in the future. But the twins are very different already: Kinley is calmer, cautious and more academic, while Willow is free-spirited and adventurous, caring little for what other people think.
As they hike, they argue, laugh and share memories, both irritating and making each other crack up. But as their hike draws to an end, they confront an even greater separation for the future.
Directed by Dream Thanika Jenjesda from a script written by Olivia Rose Prince and Bella Rose Prince, who also play Willow and Kinley, respectively, this moving short drama is a heartfelt and visually gorgeous exploration of sisterhood, grief, and how being a twin can affect identity and formative experiences. Shot with poetic attention to light and landscape, the film blurs reality and imagination to explore what it means to hold on — even when you have to let go.
Opening with a raw, funny spat between the sisters that instantly gets at the differences between the sisters, the narrative is essentially a series of conversations as they hike, with dialogue and performance capturing the characters and their relationship with honesty, humor and spiky wit. The beautiful scenery is a gorgeous backdrop, offering a sense of the two in their own world but also a larger force at work. As the twins bicker, banter and joke around, we see the tenderness and turbulence between sisters, the film’s excellent writing relaying a lived-in authenticity and detail that feels immediate and real.
Both Olivia Rose Prince and Bella Rose Prince offer performances that sparkle onscreen, full of vibrant life and palpable affection (and exasperation.) They’re very different, but their connection is palpable, underlying every exchange. Bubbling under the stream of talk, though, is a growing awareness of some other emotional current on the margin, especially for Kinley, who seems weighed down. The twins dance around this unspoken current, but as their hike nears the end, they have no choice but to face it — and grapple with their separation and what it means going forward.
Emotionally rich, beautifully shot, and full of real, human moments, NEVER GETTING RID OF ME, B-TCH is first and foremost a powerful reminder of sisterhood and a realistic portrayal of being a twin, when the edges of identity are forever overlapping with another, for better or worse. Their experiences are shared, even when they’re parted. But when those experiences are difficult or tragic, it is even harder to tell where one person ends and another begins. But even separated, these twin sisters know they’re forever connected by a love that will never truly disappear, reaching out to one another beyond time and space.
