![]() Once an unfulfilled wife and mother, she now beds a Wall Street hunk and basks in the phony flashbulb glow of gallery openings like the one behind the opening credits that shows a burlesque chorus line of creepy, obese naked women dressed like drum majorettes with bulging flesh and too much Botox, bumping and grinding to a display of popping fireworks. Susan (a wonderfully calibrated performance by Amy Adams) is a celebrated art-world icon with a fabulous glass house overlooking the lights of Los Angeles and a pop-art gallery with A-list clients. Based on the novel Tony and Susan, an elusive literary tome by the late Austin Wright, it chronicles a saga of failed lives reflected in dual stories of sombrous misery and loss. One story is personal and introspective the other a brutal mirror of guilt and revenge. Glossy and lurid, Ford uses confusing multiple timeframes to tell parallel stories about the social and soulful repercussions of American consumerism-the very thing that has made the director a success himself. Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon In a season of emotional trauma and post-election despair, it is not the movie to see if you’re in need of a little holiday cheer. Now comes a sophomore feature, Nocturnal Animals, that is even gloomier. His first film, A Single Man, was a dreary disappointment about cuff links, enhanced greatly and remembered primarily in retrospect by Colin Firth’s heartbreaking performance as an aging homosexual who finds love at last and drops dead before happiness sets in. Tom Ford is a rich, flamboyant former fashion designer turned noirish-movie director who dresses entirely in black, gives interviews wearing sunglasses steeped in dark, melancholy pessimism (“There isn’t really an hour that goes by that I don’t think about death,” he told the Hollywood Reporter) and makes overwrought films that are stylish, pretentious and both gorgeous to look at and bewildering to comprehend. Sometimes the design we think is not our style can grow on you over time if you keep an open mind.Jake Gyllenhaal in Nocturnal Animals. It has a similar design of concrete and wood and is also warmer than you would think for Brutalist architecture. I was at the Met Breuer this weekend to dine at their new Flora Bar restaurant. What’s really funny is that I already posted some of these photos when the house was the site of the JK Place Malibu pop up last year. The real life interiors are much warmer and inviting than those in the movie which is why I didn’t recognize that it was the same house used for Nocturnal Animals. The the 15,000-square-foot residence and landscape was designed by Scott Mitchell and decorated by Denise Kuriger. Today I found out that the Malibu home in question actually belongs to real estate mogul Kurt Rappaport and was featured in Architectural Digest in June 2014. I fast forwarded the uncomfortable parts and focused on the chic scenes of Amy Adams’ character and her modernist home. The film Nocturnal Animals is now available on demand so I recently watched it again.
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