Nocturnal Animals

Film - 2016

7,3

155.6K

Nocturnal Animals it's a movie with Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher Full cast. Directed by Tom Ford. Original title Nocturnal Animals, runtime 115 minutes. Genres Drama, Thriller.

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Review of

Francesca Arca

A great film based on a decidedly mediocre book. Ford managed to extricate himself perfectly by managing three narrative levels that constantly intersect. Excellent acting. It is certainly one of the most underrated films of his decade. Read all

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Emiliano Baglio

Susan (Amy Adams) is a successful gallery owner with a marriage in crisis. One day she receives a novel, Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). The book tells the raw story of Tony (again played by Jake Gyllenhaal) and his search for / revenge against the three thugs who ruined his life. As Susan continues reading the book, she becomes more and more shaken and begins to reflect on her love story with Edward. In his second film, stylist Tom Ford gives life to a plot that tries to tie together three different plots that intersect with each other and of which, the one narrated in the book written by Edward, is clearly a metaphor for the relationship with his ex-wife. The fictional novel thus becomes the instrument through which Edward cathartically reworks his past, forcing Susan herself to confront it. The director's ambitions are certainly high, but unfortunately the results achieved, in our opinion, are not as high, regardless of the lavish praise and the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The greatest limitation of the film is in the way in which Ford links the various plots together and in particular Susan's present and the events narrated in Edward's book. This novel should be, in the intentions, the litmus test through which to metaphorically read the entire story of the two former lovers. The point is that the two stories are connected through an alternating montage that would like to proceed symbolically by analogies and instead in the end limits itself to placing images with vague or even crude and crude links next to each other. Only on one occasion does Tom Ford succeed, in our opinion, in his aim. We are talking about the scene in which the dead bodies of the Read all

plot

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.