A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie (www.imdb.com).
Director: Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon
Gyllenhaal has chosen yet another complicated, intriguing project with director Villeneuve. Enemy was filmed before Prisoners (which they collaborated) but released long after. Richard Ayoade's The Double was also released shortly before this, ruining its thunder. Gyllenhaal plays two characters; Adam, the teacher stuck in a mundane, repetitive, day to day routine, and Anthony, a second-rate movie star. Adam finds Anthony through passages of his subconscious, opening up a can of psychological worms. When they eventually meet they ignite stressful dilemmas. It's an exasperating fruition trying to guess the outcome. The confines of their relationship and the partnership with their other halves are interwoven beautifully; Gyllenhaal's characters may look the same but their psyches are opposite. Open, trivial paradoxes. They are amongst his greatest performances to date. Laurent and Gadon are partners of the lookalikes, their personanlities matching the wrong man. Look closely and you'll find some hidden meanings. Some are blatant, others avant-garde Watch Enemy a second or even a third time round to catch how detailed and sophisticated the plot is.
4/5
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