![]() The novel comes with its own particular queasiness, the sense that words really can kill. But there is also something dubious about Tony, a corollary of Susan’s latent anxiety both about her ex-husband, and her current marriage to a philanderer called Arnold.Īs good as Ford’s film may be, I strongly recommend Tony and Susan. Working from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel, Tony and Susan, writer-director Ford filters the central concerns of the source material (a cautionary tale about love, loyalty, guilt and false gods. What happens next is calamitous, though Wright’s tone is ever cool and calm, as if Patricia Highsmith were taking a viva (Wright was professor of English at the University of Cincinnati). One of the men climbs into the car with Tony’s wife, Laura, and his daughter, Helen, and takes off the other two men drive Tony to a clearing. After all, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and the film’s individual pieces work on their own as excellent bits of genre entertainment, making it so that you can still enjoy Nocturnal Animals. All is cosy until, in the middle of the night, the Hastings are accosted by three men in a truck. When it begins, Tony Hastings, a maths professor, is driving his family to their summer house in Maine. ![]() But we don’t have to take Wright’s word for this: so are we. In Tony and Susan, a woman called Susan Morrow is spooked by the manuscript of her ex-husband’s first book, Nocturnal Animals. Its main theme, at first sight, is revenge, but in the end, I read it as story about the power of stories, their ability to mess with our heads. It is a powerfully strange book, at once very simple yet hugely complicated. Nocturnal Animals, which premiered today at the 73rd International Venice Film Festival, is a suspenseful and intoxicating movie a thriller that isn’t scared to go hog-wild with. In 1990, Susan Morrow is surprised to hear from her estranged ex-husband, Edward, who sends her a manuscript to his novel, Nocturnal Animals.Susan and Edwards relationship had dissolved 25 years earlier in part thanks to him abandoning his studies to be a lawyer to pursue a writing career and Susan is surprised to find that he is still writing. The best moment in Nocturnal Animals occurs when New York gallery owner Susan ( Amy Adams) accidentally cracks an underling’s smartphone screen and is. One of Sight & Sound’s best films of 2016. ![]() Wright’s tone is ever cool and calm, as if Patricia Highsmith were taking a viva Michael Shannon lends a veneer of gothic wit to Tom Ford’s otherwise all too glassy looking-glass thriller. ![]()
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