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...Judi Dench, who recently won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, takes on a very different but equally convincing role here. She plays Arabella, a sentimental amateur artist who cries while reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Arabella introduces Luca to the beauty of Florentine sculpture and paves the way for his later interest...
...questions, and you don't know if the guy's ever going to call again." Following her nightly performances on Broadway, Friel often goes to a divey neighborhood bar, where she has been learning to swing dance. We suspect that she doesn't run into Dame Judi Dench or Kate Winslet there...
...plays--works with imaginative ambition, a social context, plots--still exist, however, and two have arrived to end Broadway's season with a flourish. Amy's View has been dismissed, somewhat patronizingly, as a vehicle for Judi Dench, fresh from her Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. As Esme, the self-centered actress whose relationship with her daughter (Samantha Bond) deteriorates over the years, Dench is indeed a marvel, as impressive for what she doesn't do as what she does. This is no scenery-chewing cartoon of a theatrical grand dame but a tightly controlled and utterly convincing portrait...
...JUDI DENCH'S OSCAR-WINNING PORTRAYAL OF QUEEN ELIZABETH IN "SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE" LASTED 8 MINUTES...
Robert Duvall, A Civil Action:Judi-Dench-Syndrome. The Academy passed thedeserving Duvall over last year in TheApostle for Nicholson in As Good As ItGets. They might give it to him this year, buthe's undeserving. His role in A CivilAction was weak--he tried to add randomeccentricities to his "bad-guy" persona, but itjust made him even less sympathetic...