Enemy

An intimate, also very abstract movie told in hints. Villeneuve is doing what he does well and leads the viewer through an industrial city to a room where somebody is taking a bath in the dark. The door opens, he takes you inside and then disappears, leaving you there with all your questions and fears... time to die? Gyllenhaal 1 awesome, Gyllenhaal 2 a real swine. Chaos is order yet undeciphered. (25/04/2014)

Maybe there is a rational explanation, maybe there isn't, and maybe it doesn't matter either way. Mindfuck as hell, with excellent atmosphere, ultra-brutally sumptuous music, two beautiful women, and one rude spider who shrouds its fate in the story with a solidly strong thread of mystery and maybe even LSD. Gyllenhaal plays his part, but the biggest star is surely Villeneuve, who can compose his shots into an impressively compelling and symbolic tapestry like no other contemporary director. Enemy shows the power of film as a mental medium, capable of attacking the inner drives of our mostly passive minds, even at the cost of a weaker surface experience, which is also almost 100% in Lynch's Lost Highway, for example. (10/02/2017)

Enemy put me in a mental trance that only Shutter Island, Femme Fatale and the best David Lynch movies have ever given me. This captivating and chilling vision from another world hit me right in the heart. Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. (30/03/2015)

After I saw Sicario, I started believing that Denis Villeneuve was a genius among contemporary directors. So, when his movie Enemy, which received mixed reviews, was said to appear on TV, I didn’t hesitate a single moment. The fuckup is that when I was watching it for the first time, I totally dozed off and I had to catch the rest the next day. Enemy is no simple movie. And the first 30 minutes even more so. At first sight, nothing seems to be happening. After watching the final scene, however, you will feel as if everything happened in it because you won’t understand anything in the movie at all. Generally speaking, however, I think that this might be the worst movie with a deranged character, who on top of everything suffers from a split personality. Such stories rarely disappoint, but this one disappointed me quite a bit. (21/11/2015)

I felt downright disappointed immediately after the screening. Unlike other films with unsatisfactory and unclear endings, Enemy woke in me a desire to know what is really hiding in the back. And the more I think back about it, the better I find it. In any case, it’s been long since a film messed with my head so much. (22/03/2014)