Enemy (2013)

Released the same year as his more widely known Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve's mystery thriller Enemy shares plenty of tropes with the Paul Dano and Hugh Jackman starring chiller. Jake Gyllenhaal is terrific in the dual roles of two different people who are physically identical. Loosely adapted from Jose Saramago's 2002 novel The Double, Gyllenhaal plays Adam, a college history professor who after renting a film one night appears to see himself as an extra on screen.

After some research he discovers who he saw was in fact Anthony Claire (also Gyllenhaal), and slowly becomes obsessed with him as the film plays out, resulting in meetings between the two as their respective relationships with their partners begin to wither under the strain of whatever is happening in the minds of the two men. Villeneuve brings something different to an idea that we've seen before (David Cronenberg was in similar territory with 1988's Dead Ringers) and while the two women (excellent turns from Alexis Uiga and Melanie Laurent) aren't the centerpiece, Villeneuve subtly brings to the forefront their importance as the film nears its conclusion. There's some excellent soundtrack choices during Enemy, none more so than the closing credits' use of The Walker Brothers' After the Lights Go Out, as you try to digest what is one of Villeneuve's most low-key films; although similar in ways to Prisoners, this almost appears as that films' much less rash yet just as creepy younger sibling. 7.2/10