Independent Cinema for Everyone

Uncompromising in both its beauty and its cruelty, Tom Ford’s film is fixated with the connections between reality and constructed worlds. Susan is an accomplished Los Angeles gallery director whose current marriage appears to be unravelling. Filled with a rising sense of panic, she fuels her insomnia by reading the manuscript of a novel, written and sent to her by her ex-husband. Fusing colour-saturated melodrama with overheated, neo-noir, Nocturnal Animals switches between the world of the novel, Susan’s luxurious reality and her memories of her first marriage.

Dir. Tom Ford, US, 2016, 116 mins. Cast. Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon.