What if your better self moved in next door—and had better hair?
Alex, a quiet forty-something, leads an ordinary life until new neighbours move in. The husband is Alex’s perfect lookalike… except for one thing: he has hair. Alex sinks into a growing paranoia as he becomes preoccupied with this more charismatic, brilliant and accomplished mysterious double.
Acting
Lafitte plays both men with maddening subtle distinctions
Direction
Directors weaponize French social awkwardness like never before
Writing
Dialogue that cuts with surgical passive-aggression
Director
Nicolas Charlet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lafitte underwent daily 4-hour prosthetic sessions for the hairline difference—method acting for male pattern baldness.
The film deliberately mirrors Kieslowski's 'The Double Life of Véronique' but replaces spiritual mystery with crushing suburban pettiness.
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