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...thought. Ordinarily an impressive actress, here Johansson seems more preoccupied with her clothing than with her acting. Hunt, on the other hand, has simply been miscast in the role of Lady Erlynne. Playing the quintessential woman with a mysterious past, she seems to have decided to focus on her character??s misery. While her interpretation of the role is skillful, it is wholly inappropriate for this film. Her seriousness jars with the farcical acting of her co-stars. There is no place for depression in the frivolous romp that the film claims to be. Additionally...
...Rumor,” a romantic comedy with the improbable premise that the story behind “The Graduate” was real, and that Aniston is the granddaughter of the original Mrs. Robinson. Sandvoss portrayed the fiancé of Aniston’s character??s sister, played by Mena Suvari. “I had to play a likeably clueless rich guy. There wasn’t much to work with,” he says. In his next film, “Price to Pay,” produced by Brad Wyman...
...Bend it like Beckham”) adroitly portrays one of the most fascinating characters in recent cinema. Chris is at once despicable and admirable, gripped by paranoia as he faces the temptations of wealth and beauty. Rhys-Meyers skillfully contorts his gorgeous face to convey his character??s genuine admiration for his wife, uncontrollable sexual attraction for his mistress, and maniacal desperation to not lose the fortune he has gained. “Match Point” epitomizes Woody Allen’s distinctive ability to simultaneously revere and fear women. Johansson joins the esteemed ranks...
...Desdemona, McLeod expresses the character??s loneliness and vivacity with a fitting sense of aristocratic entitlement. But it is Bianca who really makes an impression. Despite little stage time, Chan steals the spotlight and brings depth to Bianca by simultaneously expressing her exterior confidence and inner vulnerability, with more plausibility than the range of emotions attributed to such a flimsy character would initially suggest. Resnick also succeeds in channeling Emilia’s bitterness and repression, although, consequently, her character pales in comparison to the dynamism of the other two women. The most engaging moments, however, come when...
...evokes the surroundings that could trap these women and also, at the same time, allows enough space for the actors to be constant in action, breathing life into the play’s dialogue-propelled plot. The direction also stages the action to subtly imply its context of the character??s social conditions; a privileged Desdemona constantly lounges while the household-supporting wife Emilia toils away and Bianca freely enters and exits as a woman of her own will and self-defined pleasure...