FILM
A DIFFERENT MAN
PREPARE FOR A FILM THAT TRULY GOES UNDER THE SKIN
Playwright Ingrid (Renate Reinsve) gets to know neighbour Edward (Sebastian Stan).
★★★★
OUT 4 OCTOBER / CERT 15 / 112 MINS
DIRECTOR
Aaron Schimberg
CAST
Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve,
Adam Pearson, C. Mason Wells, Owen Kline,
Michael Shannon
PLOT
After undergoing a miracle procedure to cure his neurofibromatosis, Edward (Stan) meets a charming man with the same condition.
IT’S NO BIG secret that the world holds a narrow view on what is beautiful. It’s there on screens, in photos, and in the judgemental gaze of every passerby. Otherness is seen as monstrousness. In Aaron Schimberg ’s A Different Man, the notion that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is excavated and complicated in a darkly hilarious satire about what it means to be attractive, inside and out.