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 (3)
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Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his PRISONERS director, Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing as both Adam and Anthony, provoking empathy as well as disapproval while embodying two distinct personas. With masterfully controlled attention to detail, 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. (A24)
(more)Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal
USA
Best movies:
Prisoners (2013)
Donnie Darko (2001)
The Covenant (2023)
Mélanie Laurent
France
Best movies:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Now You See Me (2013)
The Concert (2009)
Sarah Gadon
Canada
Best movies:
What If (2013)
Charlie Bartlett (2007)
Belle (2013)
Isabella Rossellini
Italy
Best movies:
Blue Velvet (1986)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
Joshua Peace
Canada
Best movies:
The Boys (2019) (series)
Red (2010)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Tim Post
Canada
Best movies:
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Race (2016)
Kedar Brown
Jamaica
Best movies:
Interstate 60 (2002)
Flames of the Sun (1975)
Born to Be Blue (2015)
Stephen R. Hart
Canada
Best movies:
Dream Scenario (2023)
Silent Hill (2006)
Enemy (2013)
Jane Moffat
Best movies:
Interstate 60 (2002)
The Recruit (2003)
Mama (2013)
Paul Stephen
Best movies:
Enemy (2013)
The Grid (2004) (series)
Casino Jack (2010)