TIFF Film Review: Nocturnal Animals. Bookmark and follow.
She hangs the art up and forgets about it, finding little to no deeper meaning or purpose in any of it. Left alone in her sprawling mansion when her husband leaves on a . Press & Industry screenings and events are only for accredited passes. Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Armie Hammer headline the second feature from director Tom Ford. A report about noctural animals and their adaptations. The report shows footage of barn owls, mice, hedgehogs, bats, badgers, moles and worms. First broadcast as part. The acting is almost uniformly excellent. Adams puts in an even better than usual performance as both a jaded middle- aged woman on the verge of a crisis and her still wide- eyed younger self. Michael Sheen and Jena Malone charm in what would have been disposable roles in less capable hands. Laura Linney destroys both audiences and her daughter. And Michael Shannon blows all of those excellent turns away by Michael Shannon- ing his way through the novel narrative as a grizzled, wry detective who befriends the beleaguered Edward. The talent behind the camera is equally skilled. But none of the thoughtfulness, care, or compassion that was so evident in Ford. Much like Susan herself, it. And the overlapping visuals are even less clever. He later pulls a similar trick with showers. And another with bare bottoms.) Lofty ideas of class, thwarted ambition, the superficiality of L. A. It might work on a meta- level, if you consider the interaction between artist and audience a fourth layer of narrative, one in which the way that Ford toys with his viewers begins to mimic the way that Tony seems to bait Susan as the plots progress, but even that would be more of a clever parlor trick than an inspired work of genius.
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