It is so intense and so real, and the camera is totally merged with her, and you're just feeling, almost physically, every second of this performance which swings from childlike naïveté to violent and complicated sexuality to absolute grief and despair.
The performance has a transcendence to it, like she's channeling spirits. Everyone in the film is fantastic, especially my all-time favorite actress Katrin Cartlidge, but Emily Watson is totally devastating. I loved the chapter cards and the ’70s rock songs, and I was so completely swept up in that mad, sick, romantic, tragic story. There was an immediacy to the filmmaking that I had never experienced before. “The first time I saw this film, I thought my heart was going to burst. Lars Von Trier’s earthy, Scotland-set melodrama, both strange and tragic, tells of a woman (Watson) whose dying oil-worker husband urges her to sleep with other men. Macy’s humiliated cuckold, right down to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s gut-wrenching gay crew member.”Ĭast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge Time Out says: “What stiffens this unashamedly exhibitionist movie’s muscles are its beautifully judged performances, from Burt Reynolds’ stand-out as porn-king auteur/father figure, to Julianne Moore’s superb cokehead survivor-star and William H.
“His films are where you dream of being as an actor.”-Patrick Kennedy One of America’s all-time greatest filmmakers hit it out of the park at essentially his first at-bat.”-Zoe Kazan “Punch Drunk Love is probably my favorite of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies, but this is the one I think best marries his ambition, technical perfection and sheer verve.
It also wins the contest for the best prosthetic-cock cameo of the past few decades, hands down. Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt ReynoldsĪnderson’s sprawling tale about a genuinely “gifted” porn star (Mark Wahlberg) is where the director’s talent for big-picture storytelling first made itself apparent.
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