A ravishing 1980s time capsule, François Ozon’s queer romance whisks us off to the French coast where the sun shines bright and earworms from The Cure and Bananarama are on at full blast. Like the changing ocean tides, the wistful fleetingness of youth only intensifies the passions of first love.
The stylish and immaculately crafted Double Lover attests to François Ozon’s reputation as a master of the erotic thriller. With daring performances from Marine Vacth and Jérémie Renier, this hallucinatory treat plays its psychosexual games of cat-and-mouse in the spirit of Hitchcock and De Palma.
Different incarnations of one woman are drawn into a dark vortex of sex, gambling, and crime in this shape-shifting, seductive French drama. Starring alongside Gemma Arterton and Adèle Haenel as one of four faces of mysterious femininity, Adèle Exarchopoulos is as beguiling as ever.
Bringing a series of events into prismatic light with its Rashomon-effect structure, Anne Fontaine’s policier magnifies the repercussions of emotional entanglement in the workplace. Virginie Efira, Grégory Gadebois, and Omar Sy form an indomitable trifecta of French talent in this riveting film.