The year’s other great movie about an actor who takes an experimental drug and ends up tormented by an alternate version of themselves is less body horror than body tragicomedy. Sebastian Stan is Edward, a struggling thespian whose life gets superficially better, then much, much worse, after curing the severe facial deformity that’s long afflicted him. The meta-narrative, involving a play titled Edward that Edward himself is gradually forced out of, has strong Charlie Kaufman vibes, but writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s playful genre-mixing and peculiar non-sequiturs give the film a strange, surreal feeling all its own. And Adam Pearson is wonderful as Edward’s gregarious doppelgänger, hilariously unaware that he’s driving Edward mad simply by being comfortable in his own skin.
A Different Man
novembre 20, 2024
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The year’s other great movie about an actor who takes an experimental drug and ends up tormented by an alternate version of themselves is less body horror than body tragicomedy. Sebastian Stan is Edward, a struggling thespian whose life gets superficially better, then much, much worse, after curing the severe facial deformity that’s long afflicted him. The meta-narrative, involving a play titled Edward that Edward himself is gradually forced out of, has strong Charlie Kaufman vibes, but writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s playful genre-mixing and peculiar non-sequiturs give the film a strange, surreal feeling all its own. And Adam Pearson is wonderful as Edward’s gregarious doppelgänger, hilariously unaware that he’s driving Edward mad simply by being comfortable in his own skin.