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 (1)
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Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a glum, dishevelled history professor, who seems disinterested with even his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Melanie Laurent). While watching a movie, Adam spots his exact double - a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair - and decides to track him down. When the identical men meet, their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing as both Adam and Anthony, masterfully embodying two distinct personas while Villeneuve takes us on an enigmatic and gripping journey through a world that is both familiar and strange - and hard to shake off long after its final, unnerving image. Enemy, adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago's 2004 novel 'The Double', is about the power of the subconscious. In the end, only one man can survive. (Madman Entertainment)
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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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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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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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A formally captivating film with brutal yellow camera filter, lots of industrial shots, a properly suffocating atmosphere and ambient music: psychedelic like crazy, or Villeneuve showing what his greatest asset is. I understood the content, but not the spider metaphors escaped me. The attempt to be the second Lynch seems unnecessary to me; I actually liked the more classical Prisoners more, where the director played similarly with the camera, the dark atmosphere, and amazingly stylized music, but it was more emotional, less of a mindfuck, and got under my skin very well.
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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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