As Venice Film Festival winds down, one of the clear favorites is Tom Ford‘s follow-up to A Single Man, Nocturnal Animals, which we said in our review, “With everything going on, Nocturnal Animals is the sort of narrative and tonal minefield that a lesser director could easily have gotten lost in. Ford allows us to consider and cherish each unique thread and wonder just how it could all possibly come together.” Ahead of a trailer, Focus Features have now released a set of character posters, playing off the novelistic aspect of the film and introducing the characters played by Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
“On our very first phone call, Tom went into great detail about how personal this story was to him, how it was a reflection of previous loves he had had and lost,” Gyllenhaal tells THR. “And the first day I sat down in person with him was an interesting feeling. I was worried that he would focus on the aesthetic over the heart of the story — perhaps this is my own prejudice. (He did notice a detail on the jeans I was wearing from very far away!) But he was so different than I expected. He had thousands of research photographs. He had a palette for each character. Everything was packed with thought and detail.”
Check out the new posters and images below.
Nocturnal Animals premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and will hit theaters on November 18.