Nocturnal Animals trailer: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon star in Tom Ford’s icy drama

It centres around a revenge novel dedicated to an ex

Seven years after the excellent A Single Man, fashion designer turned respected director Tom Ford is back with one of the most intriguing films of 2016.

Nocturnal Animals weaves two narratives together, one in the realms of slow burn, dusty Texas crime, the other more of an LA mid-life crisis drama.

The film has attracted very strong reviews since premiering at Venice, and could land Oscars come February.

Here’s the official synopsis:

'Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles art dealer (portrayed by Ms. Adams), lives an incredibly privileged yet unfulfilled life with her husband Hutton Morrow (Armie Hammer). One weekend, as Hutton departs on one of his too-frequent business trips, Susan receives an unsolicited package that has been left in her mailbox. It is a novel, Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Mr. Gyllenhaal), with whom she has had no contact for years. Edward’s note accompanying the manuscript encourages Susan to read the work and then to contact him during his visit to the city. Alone at night, in bed, Susan begins reading. The novel is dedicated to her…

…but its content is violent and devastating. While Susan reads, she is deeply moved by Edward’s writing and cannot help but reminisce over the most private moments from her own love story with the author. Trying to look within herself and beyond the glossy surface of the life and career that she has made, Susan increasingly interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and re-awakens a love that she feared was lost – as the story builds to a reckoning that will define both the novel’s hero and her own.'

Nocturnal Animals opens in UK cinemas on 4 November, US theatres on 18 November.