Writer/director Aaron Schimberg (2018’s Chained for Life) crafts one of the most original works you’re likely to see this year. A Different Man is in essence a meta-movie, one that cunningly examines issues surrounding beauty and artistic creation.
Some distance removed from his MCU Bucky/Winter Soldier persona, Sebastian Stan plays Ed, a New Yorker who is living with neurofibromatosis. Yet when a doctor offers a miracle-drug treatment, Ed’s life changes overnight: his facial tumours simply fall away, leaving him unrecognisable to all those that know him.
