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Melodramatic body-horror – but I don’t regret seeing it: A Different Man reviewed

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

A Different Man

15, Nationwide

Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man is ‘a darkly comic psychological thriller’ that plays like an inverted Beauty and the Beast. What happens when the handsome prince turns out to be not all that?

The three central performances are magnificent, and there’s a wry absurdist humour at work but unless you’re a fan of body horror it’s not an easy watch.

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