Drama · Thriller
American
2016 · Directed by Tom Ford · 116 min
Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles gallery owner with a polished life and a fraying marriage, receives the manuscript of a novel from the ex-husband she left two decades earlier. As she reads, the book's violent story of a family on a Texas road begins to take over her nights. A cool, stylish film about reading, guilt and desire.
Why it matters in cinema history
A key example of 2010s auteur-driven, stylised adult thrillers. It is a late, designer-minded descendant of Hitchcock's obsessive romances and Douglas Sirk's glossy melodramas, with a story nested inside the story.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about reading: how a story, once it enters a person, begins to rearrange her life.
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