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This week, we sat down with critics K. Austin Collins and Mayukh Sen\u2014to talk about one of the most enduring motifs in movie history: the double.\xa0\n\nWe delved into a hand-picked selection of mirroring movies, including Brian de Palma\u2019s underrated Femme Fatale, Susan Seidelman\u2019s Desperately Seeking Susan, Carlos Saura\u2019s Peppermint Frapp\xe9, and Bimal Roy\u2019s Madhumati, a film released the same year as\u2014and with some eerie similarities to\u2014that urtext of double features, Hitchcock\u2019s Vertigo.\xa0\n\nAs we discovered, doubles, mirrors, and dubious impersonators can be found in nearly every era and genre of cinema, with the trope generating an apparently endless variety of themes, narrative forms, and interpretations.