Nocturnal Animals Review Nytimes

T om Ford a filmmaker who first made his name as a fashion designer hasnt come out with a film since the 2009 A Single Man.

Nocturnal animals review nytimes. So too does Nocturnal Animals putting forth all-but-soulless Angelinos living in a pallid disconnected post-911 and banking crisis world where the only thing grimmer is a violent flight of fiction. Tom Fords psychological thriller starring Amy Adams Jake Gyllenhaal. Hutton is everything Edward isnt.

Directed by Tom Ford. Susan Morrow divorces Edward Sheffield a struggling writer and marries the rich and suave Hutton Morrow. Darren Ruecker Nov 16 2016.

It presents a double-layered narrative that at first glance is inherently intriguing. Share on twitter opens new window. An art gallery owner is tormented by the violent thriller penned by ex-husband.

Amy Adams in Nocturnal Animals. Susan sees Edward as weak and fragile a man with average writing talent and without hunger for the riches of the world. Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this very strange film noir that will keep your eyes glued to the screen.

A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husbands novel a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale. Its a film that easily could have slipped into extreme pretentiousness but it never puts a foot wrong. Nocturnal Animals is a visually appealing film that is hard to look away from.

Nocturnal Animals is extraordinarily deft in the way it combines romanticism and bleakness. Tom Ford channeling Iñarritu. Tom Fords Nocturnal Animals is also about revenge and one thats served cold.