"ENEMY" (2013) Directed by Denis Villeneuve #enemy #doppelganger

Named best Canadian film of the year at the 2014 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards and loosely based on Jose Saramago’s 2002 novel “The Double”, Enemy was Denis Villeneuve’s seventh directorial effort on the big screen in 2013 as well as now completing my own personal catalogue of his films from the past decade. Longer term readers will be aware of my mistaking Prisoners in 2013 for a completely different film, Sicario a year later was a modern gem, Arrival still delights and befuddles me in equal measure, his reverence for the world of Blade Runner shone through in his 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 and I liked and found Dune interesting, if a little clunky.

So Enemy was the sixth and final piece of my Denis Villeneuve cinematic jigsaw from the past decade and I loved it.

Brief premise? A psychological horror/drama of a double or doppelganger who whilst looking absolutely identical live extremely opposite lives. One is a History professor who lives in squalor and surrounded by a yellowy green hue, the other a Z-list actor living in comparable luxury and within a deliberately brighter, sharper directorial palette from Denis Villeneuve.

The above two paragraphs are taken from my spoiler free review of "Enemy" originally penned and posted to my Medium blog site on 30th December 2022 and the review can be read for free and in full via my Substack site linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/enemy-2013-73e5d11f3363

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