- Romance, Thriller, Drama
- 108 min
- NR
Rotten Tomatoes70%Metacritic70IMDb6.2
Deception is part of the attraction.
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
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- Stephen Campbellon TMDB · Apr 20195/10
**_Not nearly as smart as it thinks it is_** > _His tone is both apologetic and defensive. Molly continues to stare at him, amazed. She sees again in her mind's eye that other Jonathan as as he'd materialised on the street - sees again the way he merely glanced at her, unseeing, uninterested, as he passed her by. As if they didn't know each other and were not lovers and of course they didn't know each other, were not lovers...Molly recalls speaking his name as if it were a magic talisman that might make things right: Jonathan. But the man's name was James._ - Joyce Carol Oates; _Lives o__f the Twins_ (1987) From prolific French auteur François Ozon (_Sous le sable_; _8 femmes_; _Frantz_), _L'amant double_ [_Double Lover_] is partly a study of sexual obsession, partly an oneiric mystery (think Neil Jordan's _In Dreams_), and partly a conventional thriller (more whoisit than whodunnit). "Freely adapted" from Joyce Carol Oates's 1987 novel _Lives of the Twins_ (published under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith), and written by Ozon and Philippe Piazzo, the film tells the story of Chloé (Marine Vacth), a woman with a fragile mental state, who falls passionately in love with her psychoanalys
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Cast
- Marine VacthChloé
- Jérémie RenierPaul / Louis
- Jacqueline BissetMme Schenker / Chloé's Mother
- Myriam BoyerRose
- Dominique ReymondGynecologist / Agnès Wexler
- Fanny SageSandra Schenker
- Jean-Édouard BodziakYoung Psychoanalyst
- Antoine de La MorineriePsychoanalyst 1
- Jean-Paul MuelPsychoanalyst 2
- Keisley GauthierChild Twin
Crew
- François OzonDirector
- François OzonScreenplay
- Philippe PiazzoWriter
- Joyce Carol OatesNovel
- Manuel DacosseDirector of Photography
- Philippe RombiOriginal Music Composer
- Laure GardetteEditor
- Nicolas AltmayerProducer
- Eric AltmayerProducer
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