As the most avant-garde film festival in Europe, the Cannes Film Festival can produce a few shameful and vigorous art films almost every year.
Today, I will recommend the largest scale in the history of Cannes - "Two-Faced Lover"
The director of the film is the French geek François Oujon, who is known as "the most handsome director in the history of French cinema", who is not only beautiful, but also talented in film. His works are always based on the exploration of human desire and morality, and the style is black, humorous, and psychoanalytic.
"Two-Faced Lover" is a more daring attempt by Ou Rong, the film is extremely breakthrough in the choice of theme and shooting methods, with this film Ou Rong was shortlisted for the main competition in Cannes for the third time.
The film has a beginning that has never been seen in the history of cinema, where a clean female organ is shown in the camera, like an open flower, and then the flower and the outline of the female eye gradually coincide.
Through the first shot of the film, the director explains the theme of the film: the lower body is a metaphor for lust, and the eyes are the window of the soul, so desire comes from within.
Chloe (Marion Vacott), a 25-year-old beautiful French model, has been feeling cramps in her abdomen lately, and when she goes to the hospital for a check-up, the doctor says all the indicators of her body are normal.
The doctor judges that she is caused by psychological effects, but suggests that he seek treatment from a psychiatrist, so Chloe is recommended to the psychologist Paul Meyer (Jeremy René) for psychotherapy.
As the treatment begins, through Chloe's self-description, the audience gradually learns about her life: 25 years old, single, living with the cat Miro, and has talked about several painless relationships, but seems to be sexually impotent.
She also spoke of her own psychological shadow, as her mother thought she was the product of a failed relationship, had always been indifferent to her, and she had fantasized about having a twin sister.
Paul listened patiently as Chloe said this, but gradually Paul began to realize that he was attracted to her, and Chloe gradually developed a fondness for Paul.
With repeated treatments, Chloe's abdominal pain gradually disappears, and Paul also collides with the spark of love, and the two live together.
Shortly after moving in, Chloe was sorting through his things when he found old photographs of Paul, showing twin boys and an old passport of his with the last name Delord written on it.
Chloe confronts Paul with these things, and Paul says that he has changed from motherhood for work reasons, and Chloe is convinced of this reason until she sees Paul intimate with a strange woman.
In the evening, Chloe asks about it, and Paul says that he has been in the hospital all day and that Chloe must have looked at the wrong person.
Chloe couldn't believe she was wrong, so she went alone to the place where she saw Paul, only to find a psychiatric clinic whose name was Louis Delore, who looked exactly like Paul.
It turns out that Louis in front of him is Paul's twin brother, and both are psychologists, but the treatment methods are very different.
Soon after, Chloe began to have a long-lost abdominal pain, and in order not to distract Paul, Chloe secretly went to Louis for treatment.
As the treatment deepens, Chloe finds herself in love with Paul while unconsciously attracted to Louis, and even has a spring dream of entanglement with two men.
In the dream, there is also the most terrifying scene of the whole movie, Chloe, who is kissed by two men, splits out of her body, one kissing Paul, the other entangled with Louis...
Later, when Chloe becomes pregnant and she can't tell who the child is, Chloe feels like she's at an impasse and wants to end her relationship with her brother Louis.
The domineering Louis is reluctant to let go, and he tells Chloe a secret: Paul originally had a good girlfriend Sandra, but Louis impersonated Paul and raped her, and Paul knew that the brothers turned against each other, and Paul also broke up with Sandra.
Chloe goes to Sandra's house and sees her half-dead, and runs into Sandra's mother. The woman, who has an eye for everything, asks Chloe if she is also a victim of her twin brothers, and says that Chloe likes to get tangled between the two men.
In order to deny her suspicions, Chloe pulled out a gun at Louis behind her, only to see Paul behind the door, and after a nervous breakdown, she shot and killed one of them, and then fainted in abdominal pain.
Finally, the doctor took out a cyst from Chloe's stomach, it turned out that she was not pregnant, but had an embryo of an identical twin sister in her stomach, and everything before had a reasonable explanation, it turned out that this was the delusion of the same twins...
The title of the film, "Two-Faced Lover", is a pun that refers to the twins of the male protagonist Paul and Louis, and can also be understood as the two personalities in the body of the heroine Chloe.
Director Ou Rong uses his keen psychoanalysis and suspense narrative, coupled with obsessive-compulsive photographic composition, to make an extramarital affair story feel real and illusory.
Overall, "Two-Faced Lover" is a typical Ou Rong-style movie, perhaps you do not recognize the three views of the movie, but it is undeniable that the movie is "good-looking".