10 Outstandingly Beautiful Cinematic Single Frames

10. Tony In The Cop Car - Nocturnal Animals (2016)

With a cleaner than clean aesthetic, Nocturnal Animals very much trades on the sensibilities of its fashion designer director, Tom Ford. Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Aaron Taylor-Johnson have never looked better.

The polished look throughout the film sometimes feels antithetical to the occasionally dark and miserable content - or it would if it weren't for the saving grace of its film/novel within a film framing device. Nonetheless, this contrast gives way to some especially powerful imagery.

In particular, this frame of Gyllenhaal's Tony Hastings, offset within the slim horizontal white and black framing of the car, the sky and the interior, is the most standout single image of a beautiful film.

It is the simplicity - striking and doubly effective, contrasting the lines, sweat and suspicion of a deeply troubled Gyllenhaal's face with the plain exterior of the police car - that really makes this one, drawing the eye to a face that features a film's worth of acting in a single lost, grief-stricken look.