Bucking Fastard review – Herzog’s starry twins soap provokes a syncing feeling

Venice film festival: Rooney and Kate Mara play the real-life Chaplin sisters who spoke in unsettling unison in this silly, pointless drama Werner Herzog is such a unique film-maker that even a dud from him has some interest, but sadly a dud is what this is.

It is a fiction feature based on a true story which – despite a few laughs – systematically wastes the audience’s time, as well as the talents of its formidable female leads, real-life sisters Rooney and…