In Nocturnal Animals, writer and director Tom Ford uses analogy to devastating effect in order to explore the psychological devastation wrought upon a man who has lost the love of the woman he loves. Not only is the pain of the man - whom we only meet in flashback and through his ex-wife's visual interpretation of his latest novel - laid bare in a way that transcends the conventional use of flashback, but Ford also manages to expose the woman's callow thoughtlessness without turning her into the irredeemable villain of the piece. The movie possesses a gorgeous elegance of style and a visceral power throughout - and the payoff is sublime.
Review of Nocturnal Animals
