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Releasing on Sep 13, 2024
- 2024
- Cine Canibal
- 1 h 52 m
- 2024
- Cine Canibal
- 1 h 52 m
Summary After undergoing a facial reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life.
Directed By: Aaron Schimberg
Written By: Aaron Schimberg
- 2024
- Cine Canibal
- 1 h 52 m
- 2024
- Cine Canibal
- 1 h 52 m
A Different Man
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Summary After undergoing a facial reconstructive surgery, Edward becomes fixated on an actor in a stage production based on his former life.
Directed By: Aaron Schimberg
Written By: Aaron Schimberg
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
74
76% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
24% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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A Different Man prioritizes laughs over proselytizing. There is inherent humor in the absurdity of the situation—which takes a momentary detour near sci-fi territory during Edward’s transformation—but Schimberg wrings laughs out of deftly staged awkwardness (though, thankfully, not cringe).
A movie that’s about—and asks its lead to literally and figuratively wear—masks, A Different Man is a multifaceted meta mind-melter.
A Different Man is a major work—even as it shapeshifts from Cronenberg to Kaurismäki, developing into new territory at every turn, Schimberg never loses sight of his central questions: What makes us who we are? What does it mean to be a good person in this weird but beautiful world, surrounded by other people?
With A Different Man, Schimberg attempts — and mostly succeeds, with deliciously awkward results — to cram a lifetime of thoughts about beauty and ugliness, attraction and disgust, identity and performance into a postmodern meta-film mold that few (apart from Charlie Kaufman, perhaps) have managed to make tolerable.
Schimberg’s exploration of identity and representation has the best of intentions, but the more audacious aspects of A Different Man often overwhelm the interesting themes at the center of the film.
It’s a film whose tone and meaning can’t be nailed down.
A Different Man is a slog, made worse by the fact that it seems to mistake darkness for insight.
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