Jake Gyllenhaal Stars As Doppelgängers in This Underrated, Nightmarish Denis Villeneuve Thriller

The year 2013 had Denis Villeneuve forcing a father to see how far he would go to rescue his abducted child in Prisoners, the crime thriller that was the French-Canadian director’s first English-language film. Since 1998, Villeneuve has been directing features, but Prisoners marked a turning point that led to his rise in Hollywood. 2013 was also the year he made Enemy, a thriller that was just as thought-provoking but was more ambiguous than Prisoners, with a smaller story compared to the epic scope of war in Incendiesor Dune. Unable to find an audience at the time, Enemy still hasn’t been pulled from obscurity even though it deserves it. There's not one, but two haunting performances by Jake Gyllenhaal in what is a very weird film by Villeneuve before he became a sci-fi master.