Word: glamourlessness
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...Thus far, the narrative surrounding Precious is one of audiences and critics being moved to tears, caught off guard by its stark portrayal of poverty and wrapped up in its uncompromised performances from newcomer Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), the comedian Mo'Nique (her mother) and Mariah Carey, in a surprisingly glamourless role...
...balky mistress in Red Lantern, Gong has brought life and body to the director's ethereal cinema style. The Story of Qiu Ju relies even more on her personality than the team's earlier films. There Gong was swathed in luscious silks and period exoticism; here, in a glamourless contemporary role, she is swaddled in a down parka and saddled with a story whose contours are evident from the start. The drama is all in her dark eyes, where the fire of rebellion burns...
...Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve and ambiguity in TV-movie subjects and drawing beautiful interpretations from his lead actresses. As with Pfeiffer here. Her work is glamourless, subtle, heroic; her performance is a righteous heartbreaker...
Here's a good glamourless war picture for a change. "Air Force" is the biography of a womanly bomber whose crew thrives on calm heroism over the Pacific. Noel Coward may take a bow for the plot which is much like that of "In Which We Serve." Mary Ann is the heroine of the film and deserves the glory for her modest, but moving role. John Garfield and Harry Carey discreetly shun the light of stardom for her benefit, and rightly...
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