A genre film taking a woman to the extremes of sanity while always honouring her emotions, L'Amant Double is a bold and often disturbing spectacle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2018

Were L'Amant Double the work of any other film-maker - one without the credible female-oriented pictures 8 Women and Swimming Pool on his CV - it would make for unimaginatively troubling viewing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2018

Saucy and silly, L'Amant Double is a disappointingly superficial romp, with interesting psychological potential squandered by B-movie levels of nonsense. Identity crises all round.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2018

There is an obvious debt to David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers. But the skin-tingling subversion of the erotic thriller premise is all Ozon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2018

[Double Lover] has been billed as an 'erotic thriller' but as it is, in fact, a rape-culture fantasy dressed up as one, I found it about as erotic as descaling the kettle, say. Also, it felt 90 years long.

| May 31, 2018

Say 'bonjour' to that rare joy of joys, a film that hits the sweet spot between classy art house and erotic trash.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2018

Ozon is an effective enough filmmaker to send up conventions of such films even as he seems to endorse them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2018

It's Cronenberg's Dead Ringers done by a European determined to arty it up with no clear idea of why or how.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 30, 2018

What gives the film its surprising coherence is not only the fluidity of Ozon's technique but also his mastery of tone, the ease with which he applies serious craft to a resolutely un-serious endeavor.

| Feb 27, 2018

I almost don't feel like one viewing of the film does it justice, and I find I'd like to jump right back in for a second viewing right away so I can spend more time dissecting its ominously abhorrent twists in greater detail.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2018

For a film about identical-twin gynecologists who share a woman, David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers was awfully psychological. Conversely, for a film about identical-twin psychologists who share a woman, Franois Ozon's latest is awfully gynecological.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2018

It does rely on certain Gallic attitudes toward women that don't travel well. Louis' psychiatric method could reasonably be described as sexual assault, and the notion that Chloe might be "hysterical" is at best archaic.

| Feb 15, 2018

Francois Ozon's good twin/bad twin thriller puts dull Hollywood twaddle like Fifty Shades Freed to shame with its wild, wanton ride into the subconscious. Prepare for a mindblower.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2018

It's a buffet of psychosexual delicacies, borrowed and otherwise, all staged with hot-blooded, straight-faced vigor.

| Feb 15, 2018

It's like Dead Ringers meets Body Double with a kinky, winking full-frontal Gallic twist.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 14, 2018

This is the sort of thriller that constantly sideswipes you with dream sequences and hallucinations, but if you're willing to go on Ozon's ride, it's an unpredictable journey.

| Feb 14, 2018

Something this sleazy should be a lot more fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 14, 2018

Nothing about this film feels remotely safe.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2018

"Double Lover" ... spins its influences into a frenzy that ultimately reveals the story to be very much its own thing. And a crazy, and eventually strangely moving, thing it is.

| Feb 14, 2018

If you don't like this one, you'll probably like the next one. And in the meantime, we have Ozon doing his Ozon thing, and that's not bad.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2018