Word: blanchette
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...CATE BLANCHETT, right, plays the title role in a movie about Irish journalist VERONICA GUERIN, who was murdered in 1996 by drug dealers she exposed. This one may fill journos with purpose or empty newsrooms...
...cued mourning of an intensity that rivaled Princess Diana's the following year. Guerin (rhymes with cheerin') has been the subject of two films, the fictionalized When the Sky Falls, with Joan Allen in the lead role, and now a smartly mounted and modulated biopic, Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett...
Anchoring the enterprise, and pushing it from good newsgathering to movie art, is Blanchett. She illuminates every moment onscreen, shows the intelligence and vitality in journalistic curiosity, fills out the facts of the case with humor and humanity. Her Veronica is a perky soul who is nonetheless weighed down by a reporter's "burden to know." She carries the same awful responsibility as a good cop or soldier: to make things better, whatever the cost. Veronica Guerin paid with her life. This film would make her proud, for it is ultimately not depressing but--we say without a shred...
...particular, Blanchett’s nuanced performance effectively conveys the multi-faceted nature of Guerin’s character. As an audience we are drawn to the character because Guerin is simultaneously real and extraordinary. While Blanchett depicts her as a strong, courageous woman fighting for a cause, she is also shown as a mother and wife living in constant fear of reprisal. In the end, we admire her not for her infallibility, but for her ability to dedicate herself to what is right in the midst of incredible opposition. Particularly illustrative is one poignant scene in which Guerin remains...
What is CATE BLANCHETT, far right, looking so mad about? After all, she's the star of Ron Howard's chilling The Missing, his first film since he won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. But she has her reasons. One, desperados kidnapped her daughter. Two, her estranged father TOMMY LEE JONES, right (looking extra craggy), who left the family to go live with Apaches for 20 years, is the only man who can help get the child back. And three ... well, The Missing (which opens Nov. 19) is a western, but Blanchett is no cowgirl. "I kept telling...