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Join us at 7:30 p.m. Monday, September 23, for a free advance screening of “A Different Man,” the story of a man who undergoes facial reconstructive surgery, then becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life.
A DIFFERENT MAN | 2024 | WRITER-DIRECTOR: Aaron Schimberg | WITH: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, Renate Reinsve, Miles G. Jackson | RUNNING TIME: 1 HOUR 52 MINUTES | RATED R for sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violence | PROJECTED IN 4K DCP FORMAT
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
“It’s tempting to interpret “A Different Man” as a dark and damning satire of our social conditioning, which has convinced us to see asymmetry as ugliness, and internalize ugliness as inhuman. But while that might be a more accurate distillation of what Schimberg is doing here, leaving it there would fail to convey the full ambition of a deliriously surreal psycho-thriller that complicates its own identity at every turn.
“By refracting Brian De Palma’s self-reflexiveness and the Coen brothers’ mordant fatalism through the prism of his most personal obsessions, Schimberg creates a house of mirrors so brilliant and complex that it becomes impossible to match any of his characters to their own reflections, and absolutely useless to reduce the movie around them to the stuff of moral instruction.” — David Ehrlich, IndieWire
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