INCENDIES director Denis Villeneuve has just saw his all-star thriller PRISONERS released to much acclaim in the US (we here in the UK can catch it next Friday) but he’s already completed another effort. ENEMY sees him reunited with his PRISONERS star Jake Gyllenhaal in the twisted film about as a paranoid teacher who believes that he has found his own doppelgänger and begins a journey into finding out who this person is.
ENEMY tells the story of a university lecturer named Adam (Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal) who is nearing the end of a relationship with his girlfriend Mary (Melanie Laurent). One night, while watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, Adam tracks down Anthony, an actor living with his pregnant wife Helen (Sarah Gadon) and engages him in a tense, complex and ultimately lethal struggle. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (the Academy Award nominated director of Incendies), and based on the novel The Double by Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago, the film is a haunting and provocative psychosexual thriller about duality and identity, where in the end only one man will win. The film, which also stars Isabella Rossellini as Adam’s mother, was produced by Niv Fichman and Miguel Angel Faura, and adapted for the screen by Javier Gullon.
The film garnered rave reviews at its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last week and here we have the first great teaser trailer and poster from the effort co-starring Melanie Laurent and Sarah Gadon. There is no confirmed US dates but it’s slated to hit UK cinemas 7th February.
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