Give this movie an Oscar!

NOCTURNAL Animals is Tom Ford’s keenly awaited second film, after 2009’s A Single Man. It’s a supremely clever and pulsatingly gripping psychological thriller, which ingeniously tells three stories at once.

The central tale is that of Susan (Amy Adams), the wealthy and beautiful owner of a Los Angeles art gallery – enabling Ford, the for mer creative head of Gucci and Yves St Laurent, and still a hot- shot fashion designer, to pile on the clichés of a super-trendy but utterly soulless, emotionally arid LA lifestyle.

Her ex- husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), has sent her, out of the blue, a manuscript of his new novel, Nocturnal Animals.

The book tells the story of Tony (also played by Gyllenhaal), who is driving at night along a remote highway in west Texas with his wife (Isla Fisher) and daughter (Ellie Bamber), when they are forced off the road by a car-load of local hoodlums. It is a heart-poundingly tense scene.

Ford, in adapting Austin Wright’s 1993 novel Tony And Susan, has done a superb job. I will be amazed if his movie does not get Oscar nominations.

Not only for his writing and direction, but also for the truly exceptional acting. – Daily Mail