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wooo lordt, Blanchett being raved for a change...
The most important theater critic in the world has this to say:
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And I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
That’s largely because of Ms. Blanchett, who won the Oscar this year for Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” and has been seen to dazzling effect in New York with the Sydney Theater Company productions of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Uncle Vanya.” Once again, she proves herself to be the ruling mutation master among contemporary actresses.
Ms. Blanchett portrays Claire, the younger and (marginally) meeker of the two title characters, who with her sister, Solange (Ms. Huppert), regularly acts out the fantasy ritual of murdering their rich and gorgeous employer, known only as Mistress, played by Ms. Debicki. (On this night, Claire gets to be Mistress, while Solange portrays Claire.) In doing so, Ms. Blanchett would seem to deploy every theatrical tool that she has at her command, though I suspect she still holds a few in reserve to surprise us the next time we see her.
Within minutes — no, seconds — she switches from the tones and postures of self-effacing servility to raging aristocratic arrogance, from little-girl passivity to assaultive sexuality. She truly contains multitudes. The wonder is that we believe every one of these self-contradicting displays, even though we know that Claire and the actress playing her are just, uh, acting. And she forces us to the uneasy conclusion that acting may be all there is in life.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/th...?ref=arts&_r=0
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