A Different Man review: "Sebastian Stan is wonderful in this unmissable exploration of beauty, artistry, and identity"
Oct. 3, 2024A brilliant exploration of beauty, artistry, and identity, driven by a wonderful Stan performance. Not to be missed.
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Some distance removed from his MCU Bucky/Winter Soldier persona, Sebastian Stan plays Ed, a New Yorker who is living with neurofibromatosis. Yet when a doctor offers a miracle-drug treatment, Ed’s life changes overnight: his facial tumours simply fall away, leaving him unrecognisable to all those that know him.
Instead of revealing he’s been cured, Ed decides to take on a new identity, recasting his life in a new image. Even his neighbour Ingrid (Renate Reinsve, from The Worst Person in the World), a budding playwright, has no idea that it’s the same old Ed. But this is just the start of Schimberg’s increasingly oddball venture, which mixes body horror with dark comedy, not least when Ingrid decides to turn Ed’s story into an off-Broadway drama.
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James Mottram is a freelance film journalist, author of books that dive deep into films like Die Hard and Tenet, and a regular guest on the Total Film podcast. You’ll find his writings on GamesRadar+ and Total Film, and in newspapers and magazines from across the world like The Times, The Independent, The i, Metro, The National, Marie Claire, and MindFood.
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