Wait, what? Two movies about a man who discovers he has an identical double, and the identical double is up to no good. Is someone trying to drive us movie lovers crazy?
It gets weirder: Richard Ayoade’s The Double is based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky called The Double. Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy is based on a novel by José Saramago called — are you ready? — The Double.
This could only be creepier if either Jesse Eisenberg or Jake Gyllenhaal starred in both of them. Although… have we ever seen both men together? Hmmm…..
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The Double
US/Canada release date: May 9 2014 (VOD same day) | UK release date: Apr 4 2014
official site | IMDb
US/Canada release date: May 9 2014 (VOD same day) | UK release date: Apr 4 2014
official site | IMDb
And there’s The Face of Love, where Ed Harris plays Annette Bening’s husband who dies, and later her lover who happens to look exactly like her dead husband.
There’s lots of movies about doubles, but theses seem really simliar thematically and plotwise.
They certainly both look like an interpretation of alienation. But will they manage to be interesting? I don’t see Dostoyevsky flying off the shelves these days.
I’ve seen The Double twice: it’s great.
How appropriate!!
:-D
Ya know, it just occurred to me this morning that Muppets Most Wanted is a double movie, too. Seems like this is a theme in the 2014 zeitgeist.