Saw this at the cinema tonight. Knew nothing about the film before going to see it, and I was mildly disturbed with the weird intro (chubby naked ladies dancing in slow motion with confetti flying everywhere). But when the plot got going – bored lady in the art world, sent completed novel by ex-husband – I was really sucked in.
The film was dark, the story within a story even darker. Michael Shannon played a great sherif-type out in West Texas, and he cracked up the whole audience with some of his witty dialogue.
I loved the ending, because it made me reassess the film as a whole.
8/10
