Double Lover

Eeew...what a thoroughly twisted and unpleasant film!

Now, this could be viewed as a re-working of David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers...or, just as a blatant and inferior rip-off. Yes, it's that good twin pitted against the bad twin with a woman in the middle...who wants them both - in bed, bonking her brains out...with lots and lots of mirrors!

Yes, Monsieur Ozon...we get it, twins and reflections...talk about overkill and under-valuing your audience.

It's all very straight forward until Monsieur Ozon realised that things we heading towards the predictable cliff-edge...so, to spice things up, cue a little same-sex-twinny-incest and an unnecessary scene featuring a strap-on! Still, on course for predictability, Ozon pulls out all the bungs of this sinking ship and down she goes in a slurry of wild and clumsy ideas. And, just to make matters worse, there's even an homage to John Hurt in Alien - now, in theory, all this lunacy could have worked if Marine Vacth had been directed with more authority - making her less awful [as a character] and encouraging her to use more than one expression for every emotion.

Another little faux pas: The make-up department went a little too slap-happy...both Jérémie Renier and Jacqueline Bisset have botched tanned faces...making you want to reach into the screen and smooth out their foundation...something that could be said for the whole film!

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