French filmmaker François Ozon returns to morbid cinema with a very murky story with disturbing overtones.
Ozon supports the plot of his film with a studied use of the soundtrack and with the inclusion of powerful images that structure the entire narrative: the spiral staircases, the bridge that the protagonist crosses again and again, the cats (alive or stuffed), the dreamlike world of the museum or especially the continuous use of mirrors, where the real and the unreal coexist.
This based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, and the director approaches the dramatic genre correctly from the perspective of sex, mental imbalance and the existential doubts that a human being can suffer.
What is The Double Lover, a movie on Prime Video, about?
After visiting several doctors for repeated abdominal pains Chloé decides to follow the advice of going to a psychiatrist, It seems that her condition could have a mental cause. She meets Dr. Paul Mayer, to whom she tells the most relevant issues of her life in therapy: she was born as a result of an unwanted pregnancy, an only child, short-lived romantic relationships, general sadness, etc. As the sessions go by, patient and therapist will feel more and more attracted.
Trailer for The Double Lover, a movie on Prime Video
Cast of The Double Lover, a movie on Prime Video
- Marine Vacth as Chloé.
- Jeremy Renier as Paul.
- Jacqueline Bisset as Mrs. Schenker
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