She's Back, Baby

More on my favorite actress (with the possible exception of Redgrave,
Winslet, and Lange).
By David Edelstein
Updated Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004, at 4:17 PM PT


After my mini-review (below) of Being Julia, I got a couple of e-mails
complaining that Warren Beatty had robbed us of one of our greatest actresses
by taking Bening off the market for a decade. I'm not sure it's fair to blame
Beatty: Bening chose to have four kids with him in quick succession, and
starting a family is as good a reason as any to put aside a career for a
while. Better to blame Beatty for what he did to her in Love Affair—before
she dropped out. But, yeah, I'm sorry she didn't make more movies in the last
dozen years (although she made more than Beatty!). And it hasn't been a
completely dry spell. I loved her discombobulated hard-luck AA attendee in
What Planet Are You From?—especially the way she clutched a positive
pregnancy test while singing "High Hopes" in an exuberant quaver. She had a
couple of sublime moments of hysteria in American Beauty. She's still a gutsy
and beautiful actress. (Anyone in L.A. want to fill me in on her Hedda?)
I can't wait for what she'll do next (unles it's the rumored remake of The
Women).

One of my favorite moments in any movie is in Bugsy, when her character gets
the news that Bugsy Siegel has been killed. The director, Barry Levinson,
just holds on her face for a long, long moment. Look at that shot. Study it.
What makes it different from other getting-the-tragic-news scenes is that
it's not a "generalized" grief reaction. You could actually break her
reaction down millisecond by millisecond and see that it's made up of a
rapid-fire succession of very specific thoughts and feelings—shock, guilt
over having betrayed him, love, longing, fury, maybe even relief, combined
with something like, "How can I put a face on what I'm feeling?" She can't
manage a single conclusive response. Finally, her features relax, and she
says nothing. The most indelible nothing I've ever seen. ... 4:15 p.m.


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這篇報導精準地講出了我對Annette Bening的惋惜呀！

第一段裡提到What planet are you from ? 裡唱 "High Hopes"的片段也是我非常
喜歡的一段表演！！

第二段裡講到Bugsy的最後一幕，我想一定也有很多人對這一幕印象深刻吧！