Double Lover
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: February 14, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesGlenn KennyFeb 13, 2018
Double Lover, which Mr. Ozon “freely adapted” from the Joyce Carol Oates book “Lives of the Twins,” spins its influences into a frenzy that ultimately reveals the story to be very much its own thing. And a crazy, and eventually strangely moving, thing it is. As elaborate as its visuals are, the movie is also intimate. Read full review
85
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeFeb 14, 2018
This is the sort of thriller that constantly sideswipes you with dream sequences and hallucinations, but if you’re willing to go on Ozon’s ride, it’s an unpredictable journey. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyFeb 14, 2018
The kind of deliriously trashy psychosexual thriller that only the French seem to be able to pull off with a straight face. It’s like "Dead Ringers" meets "Body Double" with a kinky, winking full-frontal Gallic twist. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 14, 2018
What gives the film its surprising coherence is not only the fluidity of Ozon's technique but also his mastery of tone, the ease with which he applies serious craft to a resolutely un-serious endeavor. The filmmaker's cackle is always audible beneath the story's glassy, deadpan surface. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaFeb 14, 2018
Ozon is doing sexual gymnastics all over his uncanny womb-based plot, and somehow it all coheres pretty seamlessly, even at its most ridiculous. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 27, 2017
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. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 26, 2017
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. Read full review
75
Washington PostAlan ZilbermanFeb 14, 2018
Nothing about this film feels remotely safe. Unlike the “Fifty Shades” series, Double Lover has little interest in romance, instead considering the psychological impulses that inform it. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 12, 2018
The film is as campy and nearly as regressive as the E.L. James adaptations it consistently out-kinks, except that it’s been made with a slumming Hitchcockian verve that enhances, rather than apologizes for, the proud disreputability of the material. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 12, 2018
Double Lover may not represent Ozon in peak form but it’s too weirdly entertaining to dismiss out-of-hand. Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 27, 2017
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. Read full review
75
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicMay 26, 2017
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. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonFeb 14, 2018
It’s a buffet of psychosexual delicacies, borrowed and otherwise, all staged with hot-blooded, straight-faced vigor. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschMay 26, 2017
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. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineGreg CwikFeb 12, 2018
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. Read full review
60
Screen DailyAllan HunterMay 26, 2017
There are plenty of elements to admire in Amant Double but the endless twists and revelations grow tiresome. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 26, 2017
A fitfully amusing erotic thriller in which nothing is what it seems, anything could happen, and everything is at least a little ridiculous. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 14, 2018
It’s amusing to see what Ozon is up to, but the central character and her problems remain simply matters of curiosity mixed with indifference. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 26, 2017
It’s a wildly dated-looking and derivative film, a quaint adventure in fantasised naughtiness. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonFeb 14, 2018
While Double Lover is as squeamish as most Cinemax-style wank material about a certain male organ, it’s more than charitable about its female counterpart. One can’t be faulted for expecting greatness from a film that opens with a close-up of a stretched out vagina morphing into an eye. Read full review
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