Jake Gyllenhaal finds art can kill in ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’

Jake Gyllenhaal finds art can kill in ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’
Jake Gyllenhaal at a Netflix event. (AFP)
Updated 30 January 2019
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Jake Gyllenhaal finds art can kill in ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’

Jake Gyllenhaal finds art can kill in ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’

LOS ANGELES: Actor Jake Gyllenhaal plays a snooty art critic in Netflix Inc. movie “Velvet Buzzsaw,” a satirical thriller that turns bloody when he and others try to profit from the work of a recently deceased artist.

Gyllenhaal portrays Morf Vandewalt, a critic who starts seeing bizarre images in the paintings he is writing about.

The film, which debuts on Netflix on Friday, was written and directed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Dan Gilroy, who also wrote and directed Gyllenhaal’s widely praised 2014 movie “Nightcrawler.”