Review: Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals is Too Flawless
Newsweek film critic Tom Shone on how the fashion designer continues to assert total control in his second feature film.
Tom Ford has sent his second SOS from within the citadel of fashion. From whom or what does he need rescuing? Perhaps the thing that’s most detrimental to Ford’s health as an artist, as well as the thing that gets him out of bed in the morning: his perfectionism. There was barely a frame of his first film, (2009), starring Colin Firth as a gay English professor mourning his dead lover, that didn’t feel embalmed in its own amber-tinted beauty. The film. Exiting the cinema, you wanted to shout, splash puddles, paint with mud, anything except examine the flawless crease in Firth’s pants for signs of the mussed soul within.
