Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his PRISONERS
director, Academy Award Nominee 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 in 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. ENEMY, adapted from Nobel Prize-winning author José
Saramago's 2004 novel The Double, is about the power of the
subconscious. In the end, only one man can survive.
