(PCM) 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.
Starring alongside Jake Gyllenhaal are Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds), and Sarah Gadon (A Dangerous Method).
Enemy already has 7.9/10 on IMDB and a 90% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Enemy has a run time of 1 hour and 30 minutes and is rated R for some strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language.
Watch a trailer for the film below and be sure to head to your local theater on March 14th to see Enemy!
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