The Man in the Mirror

With his startling second film, Nocturnal Animals,fashion Mogul Tom Ford reveals the Other (Darker) side of his Vision— and himself. 

- Joe McGovern

MIRRORS ARE EVERYWHERE INSIDE THE IMMACULATE LONDON headquarters of fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford. But all of them are angled slightly, so you need to tilt your head to see your reflection. They’re a perfect symbol for the dazzling puzzle box that is Nocturnal Animals, out Nov. 18. Ford’s second movie, after 2009’s Oscar nominated A Single Man, starts with a tantalizing hook. Susan (Amy Adams) is a jaded Los Angeles art dealer who receives a manuscript from her exhusband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). As she reads the violent story of a family man named Tony (also Gyllenhaal) terrorized by miscreants on a Texas highway, the novel comes to life. And Susan becomes unmoored. Meanwhile, in flashbacks beginning two decades earlier, Susan and Edward fall in and out of love.