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Her acting anti-method...


She has no technique. No instruction, or received base for projection. She is being called a pioneer to a new breed of city actors. Her acting is no work and has no effect. It exists purely in the affirmative imagining of the viewer: she is on camera, on the screen; she must be acting, playing the character. She defeats the artistry of acting as a craft. She is creative. But she is anti-work. Anti-industry. She is a natural on screen; but her aplomb is so anti-method. There is no work to her performance, if it can called that. Greta Garbo, though didn't care much for acting herself, generally regarded the most effective screen actress ever, must somewhere be kicking Minerva for her impassivity.

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She's pretty good in The House of the Devil.

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