With François Ozon you're always in for something unusual and here it's no different: this is really a very strange but also fascinating movie. It's an erotic thriller, a bit in the vein of Brian de Palma or Paul Verhoeven, the story is slowly but very effectively built up through all kinds of innuendo's, suspicions, turns and twists, up until an unavoidable climax. It is cinematographically beautiful, chockfull with metaphors, mostly emphasizing the concept of mirroring and doubling. And the acting, especially of Marine Vacth, is superb.
On the down-side I have to say that the story was a bit too surreal for my taste (I kept thinking of David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" - talking of weird!) and the actions of main characters Chloé and bad brother Louis grew more and more difficult to understand, which made it a bit hard to sympathize with any of them, even with Chloé.
Anyway, very much recommended if you want to see something different, fascinating and titillatingly sensuous, as long as you don't mind a certain lack of realism and logic.
On the down-side I have to say that the story was a bit too surreal for my taste (I kept thinking of David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" - talking of weird!) and the actions of main characters Chloé and bad brother Louis grew more and more difficult to understand, which made it a bit hard to sympathize with any of them, even with Chloé.
Anyway, very much recommended if you want to see something different, fascinating and titillatingly sensuous, as long as you don't mind a certain lack of realism and logic.