A Different Man | Reel Lives
Date: 11 June 2025
Venue: Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry, Derry, BT48 6HJ
Aspiring actor Edward (Oscar® nominee Sebastian Stan) undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance.
But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as she loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost in filmmaker Aaron Schimberg's darkly funny New York noir.
Led by Stan's radically transformative lead performance with impressive support from Renate Reinsve (breakout star of The Worst Person in the World) in her English language debut and Adam Pearson (who has neurofibromatosis in real life), A Different Man challenges and subverts perceptions of identity, self-worth, authenticity and the nature of beauty.
Aaron Schimberg | United States | 2024 | 112 mins | 15