Enemy

2013 Directed by Denis Villeneuve

You can’t escape Yourself!

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

Jake Gyllenhaal Mélanie Laurent Sarah Gadon Isabella Rossellini Joshua Peace Tim Post Kedar Brown Megan Mane Misha Highstead Alexis Uiga Darryl Dinn Kiran Friesen Loretta Yu Stephen R. Hart Paul Stephen

Alternative Titles

An Enemy, 双面危敌, Nepritel, 心敵, KP15: Priešas, Priesas, Neprijatelj, Ворог

thriller mystery

91 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by jewel ★★★★ 2

can't believe the two best actors working today are in the same movie..... jake gyllenhaal and jake gyllenhaal
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 59

"Chaos is order yet undeciphered."
Well, that was a mind distorter if there ever was one. I don't think I can remember having left a theater so confused before. I turned to the man next to me, who I noticed had also gone to see the same film, and noticed that he was shaking his head. "What did you think of it?," I asked him. "Not good... not good at all." And I totally understood where he was coming from, because who could have been prepared for a film (or an ending, for that matter) like that?
Yet I was not on the same page; I loved Enemy. I LOVED it. Maybe it has to do with my appreciation for…
Review by willa ★★★★ 2

producers: how about you put one color besides yellow in this film
denis: um... wtf...why would i ever do that...
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 14

Did not realize how terrified I was of Jake Gyllenhaal until this......
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what the fuck???
Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 4

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

i too am so terrified of healthy relationships with women that i reduce their complexities into a rudimentary fear i can control/avoid and accidentally split my psyche in the process
Review by maria ★★★★½ 6

i love two men and both of them are jake gyllenhaal

Recent reviews

Review by Deryk Rumbold ★★★½

As A24 appreciation is oversaturated especially on Letterboxd part of me still admires the curation that the company has upheld. Of course it plays big time into recency bias and a lot of young hardcore A24 fans don't really watch movies past the 1980s but the company itself is making a statement by the types of films it puts it's name on. Films that are style concious (even if that style is super similar through a lot of the entries, building musical motifs through a slow rise to a big climax) and really care about an aesthetic. It's almost an American film movement in a way and introduced us to the next wave of directors, Denis Villeneuve, Barry Jenkins, and…
Review by DiegoAlvarado ★★★★½

This movie is insane.
Review by Bozz14 ★★★

Not my favourite Villeneuve film but it does keep you intrigued the whole way through. While the lack of lighting adds to the tone of the film as well as the characters, I found it super frustrating. You can tell this is Villeneuve from the get go, the cinematography & score are harrowing like most of his films. The second half is where it picks up for me however; I’m still pretty fucking lost - that ending was creepily bizarre.
Review by Hill Wang ★★★

"Chaos is order yet undeciphered."
Sometimes though, the chaos is too fucking chaotic that it's hard to decipher without the help of Google and/or multiple rewatches, and I do think that that somewhat takes away from a film.
Review by NathanJulio ★★★★

sureal weirdness and brilliant symbolism. My kimd of movie.
Review by Barrett Lilly ★★★★

you never know how your day’s gonna turn out
Review by Bryan Montanez ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Man, such a mind bending film. I remember liking in the past but still not having any idea what it was all about. But now that I am older and had developed my taste for films far more, I came to appreciate it a lot more and better understand what is going on. But first, I want to start with the less complicated stuff.
I think the film haves fantastic cinematography. Very atmospheric and beautiful looking but also creating this unsettling feeling throughout the entire film. It haves this compelling dissonance of very detailed and clean visuals that are also contaminated in a subtle yellow pollution. Jake also gives a really great performance in this. The dude is such an…
Review by Amelia ★★

???
am I too dumb for this???
all I could think during the entire film was “why is this your reaction?” everyone was so unpredictable in the way they handled situations?? like nothing added up to me? maybe I just don’t get it. maybe surrealist film aint for me.
Review by hail_kiddums ★★

Finally, a movie where every character acts illogically