L'Amant Double (18)
Starring Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Reymond, Fanny Sage. French with subtitles. 108 mins.
It's about twins and there's lots of sex in it: so it's true to its title. Told that her stomach pains are mental, Chloe (Vacth, who was Young and Beautiful in Ozon's Jeane et Julie) seeks help from a psychiatrist Paul Meyer (Daniel Craig lookalike Renier) who then quits because he has fallen in love with her. But is there some secret in his past that will sabotage their happiness? (Spoiler – yes.)
Ozon's erotic thriller, adapted from a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, is silly but done with such style that it hardly matters. Indeed the silliness becomes part of the pleasure, much like in the good De Palma films. (It also dabbles in the odd moment of Cronenberg body horror.) The story drifts in and out of dreams and the elegant staging means you never really know what is real or whose head you are in.
Starring Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Reymond, Fanny Sage. French with subtitles. 108 mins.
It's about twins and there's lots of sex in it: so it's true to its title. Told that her stomach pains are mental, Chloe (Vacth, who was Young and Beautiful in Ozon's Jeane et Julie) seeks help from a psychiatrist Paul Meyer (Daniel Craig lookalike Renier) who then quits because he has fallen in love with her. But is there some secret in his past that will sabotage their happiness? (Spoiler – yes.)
Ozon's erotic thriller, adapted from a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, is silly but done with such style that it hardly matters. Indeed the silliness becomes part of the pleasure, much like in the good De Palma films. (It also dabbles in the odd moment of Cronenberg body horror.) The story drifts in and out of dreams and the elegant staging means you never really know what is real or whose head you are in.
