Enemy (2013) (original) (raw)

Jake Gyllenhall plays Adam, a university lecturer nearing the end of his relationship with girlfriend Mary. One night, when watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, he obsessively tracks down the actor and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle. Dark, gripping and pulsating with atmosphere, �Enemy� is a haunting and provocative thriller based on the novel �The Double� by Nobel laureate Jos� Saramago.

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Javier Gull�n, Jos� Saramago
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, M�lanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, Jane Moffat
Producer: Niv Fichman

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Review by Brian Orndorf, March 20, 2014

5 / 10

�Enemy� is fashioned in the tradition of brain-bleeder cinema, putting the weight of interpretation on the audience as it deliberately reaches into abstraction to keep the average moviegoer off its scent. Think the work of David Lynch or Lars Von Trier, with a distinct fingerprint of Stanley Kubrick thrown in for fun. A picture like this is overflowing with oddity and most vague of clues, only in need of a filmmaker capable of turning question marks into a riveting mission of big screen puzzling. Denis Villeneuve, hot off his success with last autumn�s �Prisoners,� doesn�t work �Enemy� into a ...read more...

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