A great dual performance from Jake Gyllenhaal anchors this subdued, puzzling mystery. I don’t think Toronto has ever looked more hellish or dystopian - a preview of the even more unsettling cinematography from Villeneuve’s Sicario a few years later.
I would have loved this if it was a little more paranoid and tense, a mashup of Villeneuve’s style and Pi-era Aronofsky. As it was, it was a little too languid to be more than a curiosity for me.
Sidenote - how do I keep choosing films for our film club that feature bizarre, uncomfortable sex clubs? I’m tempted to pick a guaranteed normal movie next, but I’m afraid I’m cursed and I’ll pick something like Zootopia 2 only to find it has one weird scene in an underground S&M dungeon.
