This week will see Toronto and Venice unveil their first slate of festival programming, and you can bet one (or both) will feature Tom Ford‘s “Nocturnal Animals.” The hotly anticipated awards season release is the long awaited new film from the director of “A Single Man,” and the first taste of the film has landed.
Based on Austin Wright’s novel “Tony and Susan” the story follows an art gallery owner who is haunted by her ex-husband Edward’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale, with the complex narrative featuring another story within the folds of the plot.
“I think that what Edward has done, is written this book and sent it to his ex-wife and through that, he’s saying, ‘This is what you did to me.’ But it took him 20 years to express himself to her. And what really spoke to me was the whole part about the choices we make in our life. And how long we sometimes wait to make them,” Ford told EW.
Sounds great, and we can’t wait to see it. “Nocturnal Animals” opens in limited release on November 18th and goes wide on December 9th.
