The Double Lover

The Double Lover

classified 18 S

part of French Film Festival Weekend

Film

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2017

Director
François Ozon
Cast
Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset
Details
107 mins, Subtitled, 2017, France | Belgium

François Ozon’s new sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek.

Marine Vacth (Jeune et Jolie) plays Chloé, a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Jérémie Renier). When they decide to move in together everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she searches for the truth, Chloé’s investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers – where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted.

Combining Hitchcockian intrigue with nods to Brian de Palma and David Cronenberg, this is a theatre of excess that delights in keeping everyone guessing. A whirlwind of heightened senses and amped-up drama, Ozon's new film is filthy, flamboyant and a whole lot of fun.


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