'The One I Love' A Review

The One I Love is a romantic dramedy with a fantasy conceit. Sophie(Elisabeth Moss) and Ethan(Mark Duplass) are having troubles with their marriage due to Ethan's infidelity. They are in couples therapy and it is recommended they go to a vacation home in the country to rekindle their lost spark. Once they arrive they discover their vacation home's guest house creates idealized doppelgangers of each other when they enter it alone. Instead of helping their marriage it widens their rift.

The film is wholly befuddled. Tonally mismatched it tries to be both relationship farce and dramatic marital study and fails utterly on both counts. An explanation for the doppelgangers is mostly ignored until close to the end when their is a shambling and incomplete reveal. The film follows no sense of logic in regards to its fantastical conceit and offers almost not emotional truth in regards to its leads.

Moss is given little in the way of character, her doppelganger especially is vapid and two dimensional, a waste for an actress with such potential. Duplass has more to do but in both incarnations is irritating, self important, and cloyingly smug.

Over-complicated and devoid of emotional resonance.

Don't See It.