![]() ![]() Something unforgivable, really.” The yet unpublished work is called “Nocturnal Animals” – a nickname that Edward had for her because of her restlessness at night.Īlone she starts to read the novel – and Ford plummets us into it – dramatizing the chapters. “I panicked and I did something horrible to him. “I didn’t have faith in him,” she tells her assistant. Unexpectedly, she receives a package which she opens (getting a sharp paper cut from it should have been a warning), to find a manuscript from her first husband, Edward, a struggling and sensitive writer who was her first crush in high school – and whom she dumped. “Oh Susan, enjoy the absurdity of the world,” says her confidante, Carlos. Her handsome husband’s business is flailing, she’s been forced to sell some of her collections (including a Jeff Koons from her garden) and she knows he’s cheating on her. On the surface she seems successful – yet her vast home feels more like an austere prison of style. We meet Susan – a gallery owner in Los Angeles – and we’ve been watching her new provocative art exhibit. Things start in an outré way during the opening credits. This is a very sophisticated noir – and of course it looks magnificent. There’s also an obvious confidence in the direction – and a sense of rowdiness – the type that you feel when someone’s set up delicious and well thought out pranks for you and you start falling for them. The eventual outcome is the cinematic equivalent of throwing a stone on a placid pond and watching the ripples on the surface. It’s rather ambitious – he handles three narratives at once – and plunges you into all three strains of the imagination and how they affect one another. How they can boldly become a form of revenge.įord manages quite a feat in his second feature – so much for the sophomore slump. It makes for a dizzying exploration of the wobbly divide between creativity and recollections of the past, and how experiencing works of art or literature affects us. Yes, the costumes and design are top notch, but it is Ford’s directorial impact on the viewer that is most haunting and wicked. And then we had to wait - seven years! - for “Nocturnal Animals” (2016), an absorbing thriller that stands the scrutiny of repeated viewings. There’s 2009’s “A Single Man,” which earned Colin Firth his first Oscar nomination (and in my opinion, he should have won). I’ve been frustrated that he’s only made two – but they’re both exemplary. Tom Ford is a great designer – but the man also knows his cinema, and how to make good movies. ![]() “Do you ever feel your life has turned into something you never intended?” ![]()
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