A successful Los Angeles art-gallery owner's life is disrupt by her second husband's constant traveling. On one of such time, she read a novel by her ex husband which forces her to examine her past and confront some dark truths.
The film is attractive and superficial, confusing in its commitment of complexity, and shows in its treatment and invoice the same lightness that is its subject and object of criticism. [Full review in Spanish]
With Nocturnal Animals, Ford shatters common romance tropes like second chances and serendipity, and explores the roles classicism, suppression, and rage play in destroying those ideals.
A good way to describe this film is like the cinematic version of a Kinder surprise, with a ripping B-grade badlands thriller wrapped inside an A-grade art movie. It certainly is edge-of-the-seat stuff.
