Enemy
classified 15Please note: This was screened in July 2017
In association with Telefilm Canada and Canada House we're delighted to be screening Denis Villeneuve's cult gem Enemy as part of the nationwide Canada Day celebrations and Canada Now 2017.
"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered” the opening titles menacingly promise before Enemy emerges from black to burrow deep into your dark subconscious.
This early masterpiece from Canadian director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Sicario and the forthcoming Blade Runner), stars Jake Gyllenhaal, twice. His first character is Adam, an isolated, self loathing history professor who spots his exact double in a film he rents one night. Shocked and disturbed, he begins to frantically investigate who this man is, and tracks him down. He's an actor called Antony, who is more forthright, better dressed, but in all other respects totally identical. They even have the same handwriting (somehow this feels the creepiest of all). They are a pair of souls, armed with the same body. But how can two be one? And what happens when the alter meets the ego?
Featuring what remains one of the most talked about film endings, this is Canadian cinema at its finest. A tantalising psychosexual thriller about identity, and the pressures of wanting to become something you’re not.