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Double Lover

L'amant double

2017

François Ozon

Marine Vacth, Jérémie Rénier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer ...

5.5

2,663

Drama. Thriller. Romance 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Ozon has made a deliciously twisted erotic thriller (...) What’s liberating here is the film’s lack of inhibitions, which absolves the guilt without compromising the pleasure."	POS
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"'L'amant double' certainly won't win any prizes for taste, coherence or originality. But it's got style, sex appeal and a delicious streak of batshit crazy (...) [It] may be one of the filmmaker's sillier works"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A fitfully amusing erotic thriller in which nothing is what it seems, anything could happen, and everything is at least a little ridiculous."	NEU
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"The silliest, most sordid and least tasteful film at Cannes this year [2017] — and it’s an absolute gem"	NEU
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"A convoluted, deliriously overcooked psychosexual melodrama that is hard to take seriously (...) There are plenty of elements to admire in 'Amant Double' but the endless twists and revelations grow tiresome."	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin 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 (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Ozon contrives cumbersome mirror scenes and reflections (...) The eroticism of 'L’Amant Double' is not boring (...) but almost everything else about it is (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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