![]() Shots are framed so that there is minimal scene dressing, showing her to feel alone and yet surrounded by the emptiness. Director Tom Ford expertly gets us in Susan’s mental state by focusing on close-ups of Amy Adams. The movie’s switch to this dusty and dark neo-noir hell is at complete contrast to the cold and angular ‘real world’. He finds the harrowing naked and posed corpses of his loved ones. ![]() Runoff the road by three local troublemakers, he is too weak to prevent his family from being kidnapped.Īfter barely escaping, he alerts the police and retraces his steps. The novel shows a facsimile of Edward in his protagonist cipher, Tony Hastings, driving his wife and teenage daughter through remote West Texas roads. So when her ex-husband’s manuscript for Nocturnal Animals arrives (and literally draws blood from her after she gets a paper cut on the parcel) the rush of emotion makes her keen to read the work of a man she abandoned as too much of a directionless romantic. So does the implied threat of financial ruin (despite a massive post-modern and hard angled house and live-in waiting staff, of course). Her emotionally distant husband (Armie Hammer) adds to her ennui. Susan herself is unsure what even constitutes art anymore. The movie opens with an unforgettable hypnotic installation of plus-sized female flesh gyrating to a sparse beat. Doubting her own ability as an artist she has, instead, taken to curating art. To see the same director turn out two very different projects is also a testament to how good of a filmmaker he is.So this makes for a movie of two parts. His first movie was a moving piece of art. I’d do anything for you.’ He has such a specific eye. “Do you think I would wear a suit other than Tom Ford to this party? No way! I feel like I’d get in trouble,” laughed Armie Hammer, who got involved in the project after Ford called him directly. Naturally, the entire cast wore Tom Ford. This one, in looking at relationships and choices we make inside relationships, and not giving into the fear, you have to love someone through the fear. “Any film I do, that I really invest in, changes me,” she said. ![]() He’s also just a wonderful presence on set to get you ready emotionally and psychologically.”Īdams said the film has stayed with her long since shooting. I worked with him as a scene partner more than I worked with any other actor. He’s got a great vision and a wonderful attention to detail. “I hope it doesn’t take him seven years to make another and I hope I get to be in it,” she said. Meanwhile, Adams said she developed her own sense of loyalty through filming with Ford. There are people in my life that I just don’t let go of and that’s what this is about, not letting go of those people that are important to you.” I’ve worked with this wonderful woman next to me for almost 25. I’ve been with the same man for 30 years. When asked why this was a story Ford was eager to tell, he said, “It resonated with me because it’s really about finding those people in life that you love and holding onto them. “He goes from a mild-mannered guy to somebody who has literally lost everything in his life. “Jake has become really a fearless actor,” Ford continued. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the ex-husband whose novel Adams’ character becomes enthralled with. Raquel Welch’s Standout Fashion Moments Through the Years
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