Double Lover is a stylish, wild, and sexy ride, but it’s not meant to be taken seriously. If Hitchcock’s highbrow thrillers and Lyne’s salacious domestic dramas had a contemporary Erotic Thriller baby, it might look something like this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2024

Twice as much everything. It's Hitchcock told not just by Brain DePalma but also by David Cronenberg. Why wear one heart on your sleeves when you can wear two, and why wear any hearts if they aren't deformed ones with the wrong number of ventricles?

| Jan 10, 2022

The climactic scenes will provoke you into either peals of laughter or apoplectic rage. It is hard to imagine there could be a middle response between the two.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 22, 2021

An obvious low point for François Ozon...

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 11, 2020

François Ozon's latest is breathless with virtually every motif bleeding sexuality or psychosis, even if it doesn't quite know when to quit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Steamy and seductive, Double Lover is an infinitely better choice for a date movie.

| Jul 17, 2020

Go see Double Lovers with a healthy dose of skepticism and a large box of Milk Duds. Afterwards, rent Criminal Lovers to see how good Ozon is as a cinema provocateur, trickster and grand entertainer.

| Jun 3, 2020

For those who recognize the capabilities of glossy trash, Double Lover is right up there with Verhoeven's velvet-tipped bits of Hollywood erotomania.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2019

Sinister and stimulating at the same time, revealing the authorship of a complex mind that pours part of his worries into his cinema on a regular basis. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 7, 2019

Like much of Ozon's oeuvre, Double Lover is as visually pristine as its subject matter is depraved, but here the kinky psychological angle simply feels banal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2019

A Freudian would have a field day with the film's blatant symbolism (circular stairwells, stuffed cats, and so on), while the kinky eroticism could be a therapist's wet dream.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

Everything falls apart completely at the final reveal, with a maddening twist cheapening the whole film immensely and rendering the story an even sillier exercise than it initially seems.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2019

Double Lover is a great return to psychosexual territory that Ozon is known for and it is an entertainingly juicy time for erotica lovers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2019

With echoes of Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, Ozon has pieced together a compelling and highly entertaining puzzle piece.

| Nov 8, 2018

If Double Lover had even one-eighth of the cinematic zest of one of Brian De Palma's Hitchcock knockoffs, this might have been more than a perverse diversion.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 21, 2018

If you're not going to even try pulling a fast one on us, then why bother even make a psychosexual erotic thriller at all? Just put on a pot of tea and crack open the marmalade, why don't you?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2018

It's a visual joy to see Ozon's beautifully composed shots.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Double Lover's lava lamp surrealism is enjoyably hollow. One could imagine a midnight movie audience finding plenty of dirty comfort in its warped sensibilities and gratuitous image stacking.

| Aug 20, 2018

This is a very cool, very Gallic, and very opaque Basic Instinct, and if it's ultimately only partly satisfying, it's still incredibly absorbing and a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 14, 2018

If there is rather more surface than substance and the ending is signposted, it is a surface full of intricacy and a signpost of admirable elegance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2018