Nocturnal Animals

An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

Who really is Ray Marcus, Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s character in director Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals? Beyond the fact that he pops up in the pages of a book that Susan/Amy Adams avidly reads during most of the film, the less we say about it the better. Taylor-Johnson, however, is very precise in his description: “It was a character that I didn't instantly relate to, you know?”, he told us.

Tom Ford’s critically acclaimed debut, A Single Man, garnered three Golden Globe nominations (Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Abel Korzeniowski’s score). Seven years later the man better known as successful global fashion designer of Gucci and Yves Saint-Laurent (and Tom Ford) fame, returns to the screen with Nocturnal Animals – a taut, moody thriller that spans glitzy urban locales and scours the dark American hinterlands as a sort of topography of guilty consciences.