The Swedish actor is appearing in two period films this month,
playing women ahead of their time.
They're all so good in it, and it was just amazing to see a bunch of different kinds of
women playing women of all shapes and sizes.
She's an actress who generally seems out of place in period movies — but is just right to
play a woman so far ahead of her time.
At the center is journalist Christine Chubbuck who committed the first on - air suicide on a Sarasota news station, and the actress Kate Lyn Sheil charged with
playing the woman in all of her various unknowable selves and deep depression.
Rachel Weisz
plays a woman whose return to her Orthodox community stirs dormant passion in her old friend (Rachel McAdams) in «Disobedience.»
Natalie Dormer is renowned
for playing women who mix sympathy with ruthlessness, including Margaery Tyrell («Game of Thrones») and Anne Boleyn («The Tudors»).
Phoenix appears in Ladder 49 and Witherspoon
plays a woman caught in an adulterous affair in Water for Elephants.
Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Tuva Novotny
play women on an expedition into a mysterious and dangerous place known as «the shimmer.»
The Oscar - winning
actress plays a woman in a floundering marriage with Greg Kinnear's art dealer, Ron Hall.
HBO also nabbed distribution for her latest drama, «The Tale,» where Dern
plays a woman forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship.
Their latest, which sees them work with megastar Marion Cotillard, who
plays a woman trying to convince colleagues to give up their bonuses so she can keep her job, seems as potent as ever, and having shot in June last year, it's basically a dead cert to be at the festival.
This notion that identity can be both constant and endlessly mutable is at the heart of Complete Unknown, the third feature by Maria Full of Grace director Joshua Marston, in which Rachel
Weisz plays a woman who (depending on your point of view) has either never stopped running from herself or made constant blank - slate changes in search of her fundamental truth.
Screening: «Queen of the Lower East Side: A Tribute to Philly Abe» at Anthology Film Archives In Todd Verow's 2000 film Once & Future Queen, Philly Abe
plays a woman named Anti-Matter who haunts the streets of New York's Lower East Side.
Lead honors for movie drama went to Eddie Redmayne, for his portrayal of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in «The Theory of Everything,» and Julianne Moore, who
plays a woman battling early - onset Alzheimer's in «Still Alice.»
In the new film «Disobedience,» Rachel Weisz and Rachel
McAdams play women who were childhood friends until one of them, Ronit, played by Rachel Weisz, is turned out of their Orthodox Jewish community in London.
Michelle Rodriguez (Fast and Furious franchise), Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany, Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead), and others open up about the power and privilege
of playing women who redefine the rules and refuse to yield.
Clinton has embraced this accusation and turned it into a strength by replying «If that's
playing the woman card, deal me in.»
In the coming weeks, there is The Best of Me, about teenage sweethearts reuniting; Serena, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, charting the latter's descent into madness; and You're Not You, with Hilary Swank
playing a woman determined to live life to the full despite suffering the ravages of motor neurone disease.
Gabrielle
Union plays a woman fighting for her family's life, Melissa McCarthy goes to college and Grace Jones shows the glory of herself.
The «Americans» actress
plays a woman obsessed with Jane Austen novels in the directorial debut from «Napoleon Dynamite» writer Jerusha Hess
The ever - delightful Juliette
Binoche plays the woman in question in a slightly offbeat but ultimately gentle rom - com of misfortune.
Book Club: Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary
Steenburgen play women whose lives are turned upside - down when they read Fifty Shades Of Grey and oh my god these women are legends is there truly nothing else they could be doing.
SNUB: Diane Kruger, «In the Fade» After winning the best actress prize at Cannes, for
playing a woman dealing with grief after losing her family in a terrorist attack, Kruger hasn't been able to break into the awards season race.
Nina Hoss shone in Petzold's 2012 drama Barbara, and is just as good here
playing a woman recovering from the trauma of the Nazi death camps.
Taraji P. Henson, who could freeze water with her stare,
plays a woman driven to violent extremes by the man in her life, a charming...
In the film, the opening - night attraction at this year's Cannes Film Festival,
Cruz plays a woman whose teenage daughter abruptly disappears under mysterious circumstances during a wedding celebration.
In the vague semblance of a plot, Olga
Kurylenko plays a woman who travels to Oklahoma to be with the man she loves only to discover that their...
Kidman plays a woman who suffers from a form of amnesia which sees her wake every morning with no idea who the man is in bed with her.
Eat Pray Love (Aug. 13)-- Julia
Roberts plays a woman with a midlife crisis who dumps her marriage and career to travel the world seeking serenity.
Rooney Mara, who replaced an initially cast Blake Lively,
plays a woman struggling with anxiety related to her husband's impending release from prison.
In Code Unknown, Binoche plays an actress named Anne; in «The Collector,»
Anne plays a woman in distress in what seems like a thoroughly generic thriller.
Collette
plays a woman left reeling following the death of her mysterious, difficult mother, and soon her family is being haunted by a seemingly demonic force that shouldn't be trifled with.
Emily plays the woman sitting next to them, looking slightly grossed out at first and then turning back to her book, a copy of Something Blue, which is the sequel to Something Borrowed.
Jane
Fonda plays a woman assigned to stop a villain and ends up becoming the epitome of sex for the free - love 1960s.
I feel that's really all any one needs to know about this film, but I suppose it's also worth mentioning that Sofia
Vergara plays a woman who arranges a menage with the gigolo in question and her gal pal, played by Sharon Stone.
Brie plays a woman determined to find a husband through online dating while Holm is the womanizing owner of a local bar.
WHEN this heartbroken woman set out to help the man who had unwittingly played a