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After Tim Robbins' character in 1992's The Player gets away with murdering a screenwriter in a Los Angeles alley, the frazzled Hollywood exec absconds with Greta Scacchi into southern California's empty desert. There, in the candlelight of a cloistered getaway motel, Scacchi asks her homicidal flame, "Do places like this really exist...
...this way, the director is not unlike the controlling but compassionate choreographer Isabel (Greta Scacchi), who lures the damaged Daniel back into the restorative world of dance. "It's easy to seduce an audience with sex," she tells the troupe early in the film. "I want you to go beyond that." Getting beyond sex is the film's real revelation, but reaching that point involved not only a dance between filmmaker and novelist (see following story) but also between Kokkinos and her co-screenwriter Andrew Bovell (Strictly Ballroom, Head On, Lantana...
...Pushed beyond their usual performance tics, Scacchi, Friels, Mailman and Long are virtually unrecognizable. They not only get under the skin and muscle of their characters-none more so than the previously lightweight Long-but reveal the fragile sinew connecting body to soul. And in a film so obsessed with attempts to control the human form's direction and desire, it is the mind that emerges the strongest muscle of all. Can there be such a thing as a cerebral cinematic dance? Yes, when the choreographer is as clever as Kokkinos in turning prose poetry into the magisterial mystery...
...GRETA SCACCHI has added a new twist to the phrase "in the family way." The actress, last seen on these shores in the movie Emma, is pregnant by her first cousin, according to the British press. She and Carlo Mantegazza, whose mother is the sister of Scacchi's father, have been living together since last year. To complicate matters further, when Mantegazza first moved in, his ex-wife of seven years, Sian Houston, was living with Scacchi as well. Houston has since moved out, but is overjoyed for the new parents. "I'm very happy for them," said Houston. "Greta...
...raises a cup as if in a coffee ad. As all you Austen fans know, Emma tries to mastermind a match between Harriet Smith (Toni Collette) and the clergyman Mr. Elton (Alan Cumming), but then gets somewhat of a surprise herself. Mr. Knightley (Jeremy Northam), Emma's governess (Greta Scacchi), Mrs. Elton (Juliet Stevenson), and so on--all take their respective places...