Peter Charney’s review published on Letterboxd:
I expected this to be more of Adam Pearson’s film, and while I understand the decision to make his character so two-dimensional to solidify the film’s argument, it’s disappointing that his emergence in the narrative coincides with the screenplay becoming its most obviously settled about its themes. A Different Man is metacontextual in a way that might not be entirely satisfying on its own terms or without additional commentary. Still, it raises interesting questions about who gets to play which roles and at what point one loses ownership of their own story. While Pearson and Stan will likely receive most of the praise, it’s Renate Reinsve who holds the two halves of the film together. She is such a skilled actor that I went from being smitten with her “playwright next door” persona to finding that character absolutely insufferable. But where Edward and Oswald exist almost exclusively a result of what happens to them, Ingrid is at least given the opportunity to act with different shades of complexity.
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