A Different Man
- Thu, Sep 26
Director: Aaron Schimberg Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Adam Pearson, Patrick Wang, Renate Reinsve, Sebastian Stan
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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.
Writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s latest film is a surreal, singular tale of one man’s desire to self-actualize. Sebastian Stan is Edward, a man overcome by the reality of his appearance, intent on curing his alienation and transcending his self- and socially enforced artistic potential. Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve carefully embody foils to Edward’s ambition, an artistic and philosophical juxtaposition of his, and our, conceits.
Through a haunting score and folkloric magical realism, a unique psychological thriller emerges. A stylish vision of the theatrical currents of New York stages a universe where reality and fiction blend in beautiful ways; where lies, expectations, and internal turmoil weave a man’s consequentially incipient senses of truth and becoming. A DIFFERENT MAN is a reflexive allegory for the modern tortured artist, a subversive, gothic fairytale that deftly begets obsession.
—Cameron Asharian, Sundance Film Festival guide
An A24 release