Nocturnal Animals Review Nyt

Based on the novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright the film takes place in Los Angeles and Texas rather than the woods.

Nocturnal animals review nyt. The novel within the novel gets even more compelling. Its more lively gripping effortlessly cool and deeper. The second film from fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford Nocturnal Animals is a psychological drama adapted from Austin Wrights novel Tony and Susan.

Tom Fords NOCTURNAL ANIMALS features Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon. In short Ford has managed to take everything good from his solid debut project and bring it to the next level with Nocturnal Animals. N octurnal Animals delivers a double shot of horror and Nabokovian despair.

Nocturnal Animals is a work of exceptional undeniable craft but its also a movie thats meant to stick to you a little bit. When nocturnal animals are active. She gets a package from Edward Sheffield her ex-husband and sees that it is a manuscript of his new book.

Structurally Nocturnal Animals is an absolute marvel because to be completely utterly honest it shouldnt work. At least Aaron Taylor Johnson does a good Joker impression. What is the new Tom Ford movie Nocturnal Animals meant to be about.

By James Southall Thursday November 17 2016. The story-within-a-story structure works for the most part though it also halts the momentum at times. On the surface Nocturnal Animals plays as a thriller in the Sam Peckinpah mold a brutal allegory about the worst natures of men mostly because of the story-within-the-story.

Still Nocturnal Animals -- which was inspired by Austin Wrights book Tony and Susan-- is worth watching. Jake Gyllenhaal toplines writerdirector Tom Fords second film NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. Five-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams portrays Susan Morrow in Tom Fords NOCTURNAL ANIMALS.