Directed by:
Denis VilleneuveScreenplay:
Javier GullónCinematography:
Nicolas BolducCast:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini, Joshua Peace, Tim Post, Kedar Brown, Stephen R. Hart, Jane Moffat, Paul StephenVOD (4)
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One night, while watching a film, a university lecturer called Adam spots a bit part actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his doppelgänger, Adam tracks down Anthony, who is living with his pregnant wife Helen. But once they confront each other things take a turn for the surreal, twisted and irreversibly unhinged. The film is a haunting and provocative psychosexual thriller about duality and identity, where in the end only one man can survive. A gripping feature film based on the novel ‘The Double’ by Nobel Laureate José Saramago. (Curzon Film World)
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A hypnotic, hyperactive and sexually titillating thriller from Denis Villeneuve. Jake Gyllenhaal is perfect for these roles, the man was made for the thriller genre! Although I was apprehensive about the film, it absolutely blew me away, sucking me into the plot from the fifth minute and not letting me breathe until the end. An incredibly unpredictable, original film with the greatest WTF ending of all time. After reading an article about the film, I learned so many interesting details that I had overlooked that a second viewing is a must! 80%
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An intimate, also very abstract movie told in hints. Villeneuve is doing what he does well and leads the viewer through an industrial city to a room where somebody is taking a bath in the dark. The door opens, he takes you inside and then disappears, leaving you there with all your questions and fears... time to die? Gyllenhaal 1 awesome, Gyllenhaal 2 a real swine. Chaos is order yet undeciphered.
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Enemy put me in a mental trance that only Shutter Island, Femme Fatale and the best David Lynch movies have ever given me. This captivating and chilling vision from another world hit me right in the heart. Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve.
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I felt downright disappointed immediately after the screening. Unlike other films with unsatisfactory and unclear endings, Enemy woke in me a desire to know what is really hiding in the back. And the more I think back about it, the better I find it. In any case, it’s been long since a film messed with my head so much.
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Maybe there is a rational explanation, maybe there isn't, and maybe it doesn't matter either way. Mindfuck as hell, with excellent atmosphere, ultra-brutally sumptuous music, two beautiful women, and one rude spider who shrouds its fate in the story with a solidly strong thread of mystery and maybe even LSD. Gyllenhaal plays his part, but the biggest star is surely Villeneuve, who can compose his shots into an impressively compelling and symbolic tapestry like no other contemporary director. Enemy shows the power of film as a mental medium, capable of attacking the inner drives of our mostly passive minds, even at the cost of a weaker surface experience, which is also almost 100% in Lynch's Lost Highway, for example.
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