Sentences with phrase «performance as a young woman»

Hilary Swank won her first Oscar for her performance as a young woman who passed herself off as a man in Boys Don't Cry and only two years ago Jared Leto won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club.

If the series never quite transcended its melodramatic young adult roots or heavy - handed socio - political commentary, this third sequel nevertheless moves along with grim, propulsive confidence, once again leaning on Jennifer Lawrence «s steel - jawed performance as a young woman who becomes the unlikely leader of a rebellion over which she has less and less control.»

He effortlessly embodies Ansel as both long - suffering sadsack and trusted authority figure, and he holds his own opposite Winstead («Smashed,» «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World»), giving yet another fragile, commanding performance as a young woman caught between oppressive parents, a well - meaning captor and her own brainwashed persona.

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A few reviewers found the material a bit too dated, but this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play of the same name by Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) drew mostly raves, especially for Rachel Weisz's powerful performance as a woman whose life is torn apart when she cheats on her older husband (Simon Russell Beale) with a young war veteran (Tom Hiddleston).

Of course, to this entrancingly guileless young woman (Kilcher, 14 years old at her debut performance, appears herself to be a self - possessed young woman of ravishing beauty and openness), her own people are as familiar as the old sun and moon while it's Smith who twinkles like a new star.

Under Shawn Levy's direction, the story never misses a beat, with fully - committed performances by Jackman, Evangeline Lilly (as the woman who's always believed in him), and fresh - faced young Goyo, who bears a strong resemblance to Ricky Schroder and has the same ability to win you over at emotional moments, even if you're trying to resist.

Outside of the always fascinating Greta Garbo, the best performance in Woman of Affairs is offered by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Garbo's drunken, dissipated younger brother.

Addressing journalists later, he reiterated that he expected his performance, as a laconic war veteran who rescues young women from sex traffickers, to earn him bad reviews.

All the lead performances — Quaid as Arlis; Ryan as Kay, the unhappily married woman he meets on the road; Caan as Roy, Arlis's father; and Paltrow as Ginnie, Roy's kleptomaniac girlfriend, the youngest of the bunch — are satisfyingly sculpted, richly detailed, and fully rounded portraits, an impressive achievement for the actors and for Kloves.

The films In America (2002), «Morvern Callar» (2002), Minority Report (2002) and Code 46 (2003) may all be very different, but in each of them Samantha Morton has given a masterful performance as a vulnerable young woman who has lost a loved one.

Brie Larson walked away from the 88th Academy Awards with a Best Actress statuette for her devastating, widely praised performance in Room as a young woman who spends years confined in a filthy shed, cut off from the outside world before finally being given her freedom.

Her beautiful, exhausted performance in You Only Live Once (1937) as the young woman partnered with a vulnerable Henry Fonda who become criminals on the lam has a tenderness and romantic despair that makes this memorable movie quite moving as it examines two everyday people who are very much the «victims of circumstances» in Depression era society.

Diane Kruger gives a totally committed performance as a woman determined to see justice done after her husband and young son are killed in a bombing by neo-Nazis.

Smashed features a noteworthy performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a young woman who recognizes her own symptoms... Continue reading Indie Weekend: «Smashed,» «The Sessions,» «Samsara,» «Sister,» and More

The first hour of this relationship drama is terrific, and the second hour sags a bit, but there is no arguing with the performance of Dakota Johnson, who is superb as a young woman experiencing a sexual awakening at the hands of a billionaire with sadistic proclivities.

The only thing that stops it from being completely oppressive is Greta Gerwig's wonderfully believable performance as the awkward, much younger woman whom Roger alternately woos and rejects.

Best supporting actress: Here's where Scarlett Johansson will be honored for the wrong performance: The academy will nominate her for «Lost in Translation,» where she was indeed wonderful as the young newlywed who becomes Bill Murray's late - night soul mate, instead of «The Girl With a Pearl Earring,» where with only a handful of spoken words, she tells us everything we need to know about a young woman who could have achieved anything, if only she had been born in a different time and place.

Other powerful performances by women that should not be forgotten during nominations are Annette Bening's dead - on turn as Gloria Grahame in «Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool,» Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in «Lady Bird»; Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in «I, Tonya,» the young new - to - acting Brooklynn Prince in «The Florida Project,» and Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige in «Mudbound.»

• Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for her breakout role as a young woman who challenges her Ozark Mountains community to look for her missing father in «Winter's Bone», while newcomer Hailee Steinfeld took Best Supporting Actress for her debut performance in «True Grit» as an 1870s teenager avenging her father's murder.

Co-star Peter Saarsgard is another favorite, and he's just fine here, adding some real physical menace to a role that could otherwise be seen as a call back to his performance as a less violent corrupter of young women in 2009's «An Education.»

Jumping time frames between pre-and-post trauma summers at the lake, Moss crafts a daring performance as a privileged and sheltered young woman who may have always been on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Field, now sixty - nine years of age in an industry that has thrown actors away long before that turns in an amazing, complex performance as a woman who projects the loneliness of someone who has let life go by and as one who is falsely encouraged by a man way younger than she to fulfill the maxim of a TV motivational speaker.

The performances of the young cast are very natural, and Sloma is perhaps the standout: she is given the opening and closing sequences as well as at least her share of the interwoven narrative, but the film couldn't work without her confident portrayal of a young woman on the verge of maturity.

Saoirse Ronan gives one of this year's most emotionally captivating and quietly rich performances as the competent young woman torn between two loves; and more significantly, her roots and newfound identity in America.

Based on director Iram Haq's own experiences as a young Pakistani woman in Norway, it features an astounding debut by 18 - year - old Mozhdah and a nuanced performance by veteran actor Hussain -LRB-

That these lighter textures of mischief and spiritiness can be found in a story that ultimately sees most of these young women bartered off into marriage like chattel or worse, is a testament to Erguven's sensitivity and intelligence behind the camera, and to the uniformly winning performances she elicits from her largely non-professional cast, especially Günes Sensoy as the youngest and most irrepressible of the sisters.

He delivers as fine a performance as possible under the circumstances, but it's an ill fit to consider him a semi-cosmopolitan author transplanted to Europe who has the playboy charisma to tell a young woman that he's been watching her through her window for weeks and hopes he catches her in the act of undressing and have her feel flattered.

Fifty Shades of Grey The first hour of this relationship drama is terrific and the second hour sags a bit, but there is no arguing with the performances of Jamie Dornan and especially Dakota Johnson, who is superb as a young woman experiencing a sexual awakening at the hands of a billionaire with sadistic proclivities.

Though Leo's expert performance in a role that might have seemed overly familiar dominates at times, this film's focus, as its title indicates, is on its young women, filled as they are with heartbreaking doubts and worries about their relationships to one another and to Christ.

Farrow delivers a harrowing, star - making performance as a pregnant young woman living with paranoia surrounding her unborn child.

Lily Tomlin gives the performance of a lifetime as a woman on a day - long odyssey with her granddaughter in search of the cold hard cash the younger woman desperately needs.

Few horror movies are as lush, or star an avatar of hysteria like Mia Wasikowska, playing a young woman whose fetishized body and violent leanings are bound together in one knotty performance.

As usual Sharni Vinson (You're Next) makes for a highly capable horror anti-hero, and it's her performance, plus a handful of clever twists, that keep this crime - thriller - turned - carnage-fest, about a group of ill - fated criminals bickering over what to do with the (plainly and perhaps supernaturally evil) young woman they've abducted, cooking.

In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic deaths of her husband and young daughter.

3:45 am (30th)-- IFC — The Piano I often find Jane Campion films overly pretentious, but this one strikes the right chord, with Holly Hunter as a mute woman in an arranged marriage who finds love with one of her husbands» hired hands — but stealing the show is her young daughter, an Oscar - winning performance by Anna Paquin.

But newcomer Sasha Lane is vibrant as a free - spirited young woman in «American Honey»; and Ruth Negga is heartbreaking as a woman in an interracial marriage in the South in the 1960s in Jeff Nichols ««Loving»; and Isabelle Huppert won raves for a fierce performance as an assault victim in Paul Verhoeven «s «Elle»; and Kristen Stewart survived the boo - birds who initially mocked Olivier Assayas ««Personal Shopper» to win praise.

An instantly gripping film, it's buoyed by an astonishing, career - best performance from Shirley Henderson (Trainspotting, Okja) as Judy, a Parkinson's afflicted woman, recently widowed, raising a teenage son named Jamie, who's brilliantly portrayed by the rising young star Théodore Pellerin (It's Only the End of the World).

The other key players here are Kirsten Dunst (who starred in Coppola's «Marie Antoinette» and «The Virgin Suicides»), piercingly good as the naive young woman to whom McBurney pledges his love, and Kidman, whose scalpel - sharp performance seems to conceal tantalizing multitudes.

Patti Cake $ is a nice start toward remedying the lack of disaffected young women onscreen, with Danielle Macdonald's searing performance as a wannabe rapper mired in rundown New Jersey.

Eili Harboe's nuanced performance as Thelma really sells the young woman's complicated situation.

It was a coup to cast her in the first place, and the Oscar winner gives another fierce performance as the troubled, tough young woman thrust into the chew - you - up - and - spit - you - out political machinery of a government operated by President Snow (Donald Sutherland, smiling, evil and having a heyday).

She is member of the poetry critique and performance group Cool Women and works as a teaching artist for Young Audiences of NJ and Eastern PA and Writerâ $ ™ s Theatre of NJ.

In a room of the Steigenberger Europäischer Hof the performance artist Ann Liv Young offers individual therapeutic treatments in her role as Sherry, a woman from the southern U.S..

With Leslie Labowitz - Starus, she created «The Performing Archive» at 18th Street, which traveled to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Haus der Kunst in Berlin, and which she describes as «an important exchange» in which «young women artists... encounter an extensive paper and image archive of feminist performance art.»

I was still too young to see that the earlier and magnificently frenetic and repellent paintings of women, which seemed excessively grotesque, like bashed dolls, were not really paintings of women so much as what happens to women: what men do to women and what women do to themselves in the hysteria of the pop performance world, fashion, eros and self - travesty, all plainly visible in Manhattan.

Dig deep enough in the «crooked skeptics» accusation, and you ultimately discover that in regard to the notion about skeptics being in a pay - for - performance arrangement with anybody in the fossil fuel industry, there's only one usable weapon in the enviro - activists» arsenal to indict those skeptics as industry - paid shills: the supposedly leaked industry memo set from a public relations campaign called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) supposedly containing the «reposition global warming» strategy goal, which targeted «older, less - educated males» and «younger, lower - income women.»