I've seen her in alot of movies, and always liked her, but yowza! She looked great in this...
Oh, I liked the movie too... and extra bonus was seeing George Clooney getting his ass whupped about half dozen times.
She was the only real highpoint of this movie. More and more I'm getting to believe that she's probably one of the great female actresses/actors. Definitely top 5 of all time.
shareJust watched it and she acts circles around her co-stars. She is so much better than Toby when they are together it's embarrassing.
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i found blanchet's lena repulsive. I'm a feminist and a character has to be pretty repulsive for me not to care when she is shown being violently violated. And I didn't care. I liked it when the ham-eating stripper made a wisecrack about Lena as a self dramatizing queen whore, or something.
her exaggerated female impersonator carriage and gestures, her phony accent, her request to the scottish guy that he find her a john ... after sex with that woman you'd have the clap, the drip, and probably some as yet unknown social disease.
i think it was the guardian that complained about her contacts, that made her look as if she had wads of licorice affixed to her eyes. I mean, not all Jewish women had beebees for irises, fer crying out loud.
and blanchet's performance didn't work for me at all. Garbo, in "Camille," Dietrich, in "Dishonored," could play women who had been around the block and yet still be transcendent. Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious."
Blanchet was just one of the many reminders in this movie that I was NOT watching a classic.
I usually like Blanchet, but everything I like about her -- her ethereal beauty, her class -- was obscured here.
yes, simply stunning!
shareNot really. In fact, I felt the opposite. People were making a big fuss over her and couldn't understand why so. Oh well, to each his/her own.
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