Nocturnal Animals
Nocturnal Animals
“ When you love someone you can't just throw it away. ”
CINEMA2016-11-04
DIGITAL2016-11-24
RegionUS / CN
Runtime116 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Tom Ford crafts a visually stunning, cruel psychological revenge story executed entirely through a manuscript.”
“Tom Ford crafts a visually ravishing, emotionally brutal double narrative exploring vengeance through fiction.”
Storyline
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.
DIRECTOR / Director
Tom Ford
KEYWORDS
based on novel or bookcheatingparent child relationshiphostageinsomniacowardiceflashbackrevengemurdercancerwriterrape and murderoverbearing motherartnovelistex-husband ex-wife relationshipcarjackingstory within the storysexual assaultabortionart exhibitionambiguityambiguousambivalent
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