The Luxury in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals Will Terrify and Seduce You

Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals stars Amy Adams as Susan Morrow, a blue-chip art dealer living in a $100-million Hollywood Hills mansion. The film quickly disabuses viewers of any notion that that we should admire her elegant life and its opulent furnishings. And yet—those clothes, that art, that home décor. Why do we yearn for it so? And how can we get our hands on it?

Take a scene where Susan slips on a glamorously chunky pair of Chloé eyeglasses to read in bed. Is that a Cartier clock on her bedside table? And those sheets, rich and lustrous as a wave of cream—they must be something like Sferra, right? (They are—Sferra’s Giotto collection, to be precise. $300–$420 a set.) The constant caress of luxury here and throughout Susan’s world is simultaneously seductive and eerie. “She’s paid a high price to have a Cartier clock,” as set decorator Meg Everist puts it. The clocks sell for $12,500 and up, but what Everist really means is that Susan's life choices have left her in an ugly place. She may have pretty things, but she's also getting two-timed by her second husband and prefers to escape from her posh world into a brutal revenge thriller written by the man she long ago dumped him for.