A Voldermort performer who could possibly win the Oscar this season? A Voldermort performer who's going to have one of her strongest career years and that 20 years after her debut? A Voldermort performer who's higher on the iTunes album chart than any of the girls the fomos here stan for?
Instead we get Knightley, who juts her chin, quakes, shakes and bugs her eyes, but nothing about her pain calls out to us, because nothing in it seems real. Indeed, when at one point Jung spanks his patient, you may completely miss the erotic content and simply think what I thought - that somebody, finally, was punishing Knightley for this performance.
All the hard work of Fassbender and Mortensen is undone by Keira Knightley though, who delivers a ‘Voldermort performance’ – it should never be spoken of again.
