A24 has already made Denis Villeneuve‘s Enemy available on DirecTV but it will now come to limited theaters on March 14 and the promotion behind the film has been rather busy. Today I have for you a new poster designed by artist Sam Smyth along with three featurettes for the film the writer/director actually made before one of last year’s best movies, Prisoners.
Enemy stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a double role, playing himself and his doppelganger (or is he) and it’s hardly an easy film to decipher. Here’s the opening to my review from last year’s Toronto Film Festival:
A giant spider slowly walks across a bleak Toronto skyline. A history teacher sees a man that looks just like him in a random movie. A pregnant woman thinks her husband may be cheating on her. A mother is just happy her son is no longer satisfied being a third-rate actor. These are a few of the facts that make up Denis Villeneuve’s Lynchian new film Enemy, a film I’m still processing and perhaps forever will.
You’ll be excused for not entirely “getting it”, but that’s actually what adds to the film’s attraction. It’s not necessarily one of those films that makes you think “getting it” is as important as trying to tap into what you may have missed is exciting. There is just enough there to keep you engaged and just enough missing to keep you guessing.
You can read my full review here.
As for the three featurettes, the first looks at Villeneuve’s adaptation of José Saramago‘s novel (via The Playlist), another looking at the “Women of Enemy“, which is to say Sarah Gadon, Melanie Laurent and Isabella Rossellini and then one final featurette going behind-the-scenes.
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