A24 Films and Lionsgate Home Entertainment will bring to Blu-ray acclaimed Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's latest film, Enemy (2013). Based on José Saramago's novel, Enemy stars Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko), Mélanie Laurent (The Round Up), Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis), and Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet). Street date is June 24th.
Official synopsis: Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his Prisoners director, Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing as both Adam and Anthony, provoking empathy as well as disapproval while embodying two distinct personas. With masterfully controlled attention to detail, Villeneuve takes us on an enigmatic and gripping journey through a world that is both familiar and strange — and hard to shake off long after its final, unnerving image.
Special Features:
Making of featurette
Note: Denis Villeneuve's Incendies was selected to represent Canada in the Foreign Language Film Category in the 83rd Academy Awards. The film is currently available on Blu-ray in the U.S. and UK. See our listings and reviews of these releases here and here. Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique is also available on Blu-ray in Canada. See our review of this release here.