Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | Film | July 16, 2024
Jason reviewed A Different Man out of Sundance this year; it was his favorite film of the fest. He called it a “high-wire marvel of hard questions hilariously siphoned through elliptical lunacy. It channels our great poets of cinematic anxiety, the Coens and Charlie Kaufmans, but it finds fresh gristle to gnaw upon by taking aim at our of-this-moment conversations about representation, about the constructions of self, and about the shaky quicksand of flesh that it’s all built upon.”
At one point in Jason’s review, he described the plot of the Sebastian Stan movie thusly: “And so that’s how we end up with a handsome Hollywood actor who’d been wearing facial prosthetics being forced to wear a disfigured mask in order to fake his former disfigurement in order to portray his love interest’s twisted version of his own personal experiences.”
None of that will make any sense, at least until you watch the trailer, which evolves from what appears to be a feel-good Extreme Makeover: Face Edition film into a horror movie basically called Watch Out: Pygmalion Is Standing Behind You, Motherf**ker. It looks terrific.
A Different Man comes from directory Aaron Schimberg. It comes out this fall, likely poised for an awards season run.
