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Kristen Stewart receives critical acclaim at Cannes
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Trailing a wave of high expectations, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Riley,Viggo Mortensen and Garrett Hedlund are in town for the premiere of On The Road - and a little face-time with the press.
Adapted from Jack Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical, road-trip-***-voyage-of-discovery novel, this long-awaited film is also competing at the festival for the coveted Palme d’Or.
The cast were all smiles at the photo call this morning, and they had good reason. At the film’s screening earlier, literally thousands of journalists and film writers queued for a seat in the Lumiere cinema.
The sheer speed of Twitter meant reactions came online quickly.
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Kristen Stewart lying naked in the background.Twilight completely undervalues Kristen Stewart’s acting capabilities.It takes a completely different woman to sit naked between two dudes and jack them off simultaneously in a car.
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Garrett Hedlund is a great Dean, Kristen Stewart is the best Marylou you can have via @ebwater #OTR #Cannes
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On The Road was decent, but like the material, episodic with a hard to care for lead. Kristin Stewart on mold breaking form. #cannes2012
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Kristen make it not only sympathetic but show a boldness rare in actresses of her generation."- @PremeireFR
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On The Road: an overlong showcase for Garrett Hedlund's charm. Without a doubt, Kristen Stewart's steamiest role to date. -AS #cannes2012
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Forbes
Kristen Stewart and Amy Adams are also excellent.
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Hitfix
Hitfix’s Drew McWeeney, concludes ”On The Road has a real heartbeat, and it’s a trip worth making”, and The Hollywood Reporter raptured,” Walter Salles’s adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s generation-defining novel is vibrantly visualized and features a ‘perfect’ Kristen Stewart.”
Kristen Stewart plays Marylou, one of the many women who exist in Dean's orbit, drawn to his life-force and repelled by his inability to stay in one place, and it's good work from her, further indication that as soon as she puts the "Twilight" series in her rearview mirror, she's got a promising career ahead of her.
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Premiere Magazine offered high praise, describing Hedlund and Stewart as great.
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Filmstage wrote, Kristen Stewart’s “brave performance in what comes across as her bold journey beyond the dull and lifeless character she portrays in the Twilight movie.”
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IndieWire
Stewart’s achievement as the giddy, pleasure-seeking Marylou, a credible performance made particularly noteworthy for her current fame in the Twilight franchise; frequently going nude, speaking up and dominating most of her scenes, she buries her movie stardom with this refreshingly non-commercial gig.”
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Variety
Stewart and Dunst, whose warm, emotionally accessible turns lend Marylou and Camille more flesh and character than they had on the page.
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Vulture
It reestablishes the promising character actress last seen in Into the Wild and held captive as Twilight's leading lady for years.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Stewart, selected for Marylou five years ago on the basis of her striking debut in Into the Wild, is perfect in the role, takes off her clothes more than once and nearly always seems to be breaking a sweat, which kicks the sexiness quotient up high.
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EW
Kristen Stewart, often topless, makes the darkly bubbly Marylou a convincing prehistory hippie."
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Overall though, the buzz in Cannes, according to LA Times’s Steven Zeitchik is a “stronger-than-expected positivity for On the Road”.
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