Velvet Buzzsaw reunites Jake Gyllenhaal with his Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy and co-star Rene Russo. Here's the plot description:
Velvet Buzzsaw is a thriller set in the contemporary art world scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.
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I was a huge fan of Nightcrawler. It was one of my favorite movies of 2015 and features Gyllenhaal's best performance — he was egregiously snubbed at the Oscars (still mad).
While that movie was essentially a neo-noir crime thriller, Velvet Buzzsaw looks like it's delving a bit into horror. It makes sense considering there were a lot of horror elements in Nightcrawler — Lou Bloom, Gyllenhaal's character, was truly terrifying at points.
Gyllenhaal thrives when he's playing characters falling into madness/obsession — Nightcrawler, Zodiac, Prisoners — which bodes well for the movie.
It also helps that he's joined by a stacked supporting cast including Daveed Diggs, Stranger Things' Natalia Dyer, Bird Box‘s John Malkovich, and the current reigning queen of horror Toni Collette — following up her stunning performance in last year's Hereditary.
Velvet Buzzsaw has a lot going for it.
It will be released on Netflix on February 1st. It will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
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