All the elements, on paper, are aligning. A compelling, elegant story. A talented director. A great cast. Glenn in the lead. There are no coincidences; Glenn has been trying for years to mount an award worthy film project ( Always On My Mind, The Duchess, The Queen of Spades), and unlike her failed attempts (except for Albert Nobbs), this one seems to actually be coming together.
Let's wait and see. Very excited for what's to come.
lets hope so !
shareLooks like it will be.
shareI desperately hope not. I hate to see anybody 0-7, especially at 71 years old--I still feed sad Peter O'Toole died 0-8--but she didn't deliver the year's best performance by an actress. Lady Gaga or Olivia Colman did (it's hard to say who, but one of them did).
Lady Gaga was absolutely mesmerizing as Ally. She was so completely emotionally available and so, so real. She's so incredibly likable and pleasant, traits that are often the marks of somebody being played by an actor/actress who has a lot of star power whose charm and charisma are theirs and not the character's, but with Ally are the result of being played by somebody so real that we feel for her and root for her because we feel we know her.
Olivia Colman is simply incredible in a very eccentric, very big, very difficult role. Interestingly, in a film with an incredible screenplay, in which well deserved Oscar nominees Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone undoubtedly benefit from great dialogue, Colman had comparatively fewer brilliant lines, and breathed life into this character with her screams and shouts. Her face was usually all that was needed to know how she felt.
Glenn Close's performance doesn't compare to either of these. It doesn't compare to Melissa McCarthy's. She is the best part of The Wife, but it's a bad movie, probably because of a predictable, formulaic screenplay. A Glenn Close win would be like Meryl Streep's for The Iron Lady. Viola Davis clearly deserved that Oscar and Streep won because she'd lost 16 Oscars over the course of 28 years.
Colman won, of course.
shareYes I think so. And I think it's ironic that she is one of the few A-list actresses that didn't start out playing "the wife".
shareHmmm, it would def. be deserved!
I'm still watching the others to see if I think she's best. Olivia Colman was amazing but then so was Glenn! They are VERY different roles and very different movies. Currently trying to make up my mind on whether that matters.
Glenn really touched something in me, in this role and movie.
Yes.
shareI don't think it was a strong enough performance.
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