Synopsis
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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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
Recommandations
- 80
Variety
Sure, it’s kinky, but Ozon is having fun with it, to the extent that the entire film rewards that fetish all moviegoers have in common — voyeurism — offering up a kind of equal-opportunity objectification. - 80
The Telegraph
It’s a fantasy not of sexual satisfaction but sexual accomplishment, and perhaps no director other than Ozon would have the imagination and panache to carry it off. - 75
The Playlist
The cinematic trickery on display – lurid dissolves, off-kilter juxtapositions, and bizarre dance numbers bouncing around Chloe’s brittle mindscape – compensates for the skin-deep thematics, and keep the rhythm of the film popping. - 75
The Film Stage
It’s difficult to know just how serious this is all meant to be. Then again, camp only really works when the level of intention is difficult to decipher. - 75
ReelViews
Double Lover may not represent Ozon in peak form but it’s too weirdly entertaining to dismiss out-of-hand. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Its tale of doubles, deception and desire allows Ozon to fool around with some of his favorite themes — the turbulent inner lives of complex women, the distance between appearance and reality, the essential unknowability of even our most intimate loved ones, the necessity of imagination in enduring everyday life. - 63
Slant Magazine
Though Double Lover has a slight oneiric quality from the start, it grows increasingly delirious, the plot threads knotting in convoluted patterns and the overall mood more and more ridiculous. - 60
Screen Daily
There are plenty of elements to admire in Amant Double but the endless twists and revelations grow tiresome.
