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TIFF Review: Denis Villeneuve's 'Enemy' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal Is A Haunting Look At Our Dark Desires Sep 8th 2013, 23:00, by Rodrigo Perez At the risk of blatantly repeating ourselves, Jake Gyllenhaal and director Denis Villeneuve are on the cusp of a banner 2013 that is about to hit its crest. Their first-unveiled collaboration, the harrowing, Fincher-with-more-emotional-resonance crime thriller "Prisoners" has already bruised audiences in Telluride and Toronto (read our review here). But if "Prisoners" is the grimmest studio film you've seen since "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," then "Enemy" -- chronologically their first collaboration -- is the equally dark but more experimental and arty cousin. And a terrifically haunting one at that. Imagine the Paul Thomas Anderson of "There Will Be Blood" making a Brian DePalma movie, or Claire Denis directing Christopher Nolan's "Memento." While those superlatives do give you a taste of the striking, sensual disposition simmering in the French-Canadian filmmaker's engrossing and provocative psychological thriller, it actually does a disservice to Villeneuve's superb craft... Media files: an-enemy-jake-gyllenhaal.jpg (image/jpeg)

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