Double Lover
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- cold
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / erotic, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Our read · Double Lover (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · erotic · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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