Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon
Synopsis:
An art gallery owner at crisis point in her personal life receives a manuscript from her first husband which brings back all her unresolved guilt and longing, at the same time as it delivers a ruthless death blow to their love.
Review:
Superb piece of cinema, in which fictional and contemporaneous action unfurl at the same time. Dismissed by some critics as an empty, precision engineered vehicle for the very art its heroine professes to despise, it is in my view far more digestible than The Neon Demon, which it resembles superficially, perhaps because it also appears to be channelling David Lynch. The acting by all three leads is excellent, not least Shannon, but Amy Adams is breathtaking in her fragility.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon
Synopsis:
An art gallery owner at crisis point in her personal life receives a manuscript from her first husband which brings back all her unresolved guilt and longing, at the same time as it delivers a ruthless death blow to their love.
Review:
Superb piece of cinema, in which fictional and contemporaneous action unfurl at the same time. Dismissed by some critics as an empty, precision engineered vehicle for the very art its heroine professes to despise, it is in my view far more digestible than The Neon Demon, which it resembles superficially, perhaps because it also appears to be channelling David Lynch. The acting by all three leads is excellent, not least Shannon, but Amy Adams is breathtaking in her fragility.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon
Synopsis:
An art gallery owner at crisis point in her personal life receives a manuscript from her first husband which brings back all her unresolved guilt and longing, at the same time as it delivers a ruthless death blow to their love.
Review:
Superb piece of cinema, in which fictional and contemporaneous action unfurl at the same time. Dismissed by some critics as an empty, precision engineered vehicle for the very art its heroine professes to despise, it is in my view far more digestible than The Neon Demon, which it resembles superficially, perhaps because it also appears to be channelling David Lynch. The acting by all three leads is excellent, not least Shannon, but Amy Adams is breathtaking in her fragility.