Uma Thurman in “Nymphomaniac” Her role: Mrs. H, a mother so overwhelmed with fury when her husband leaves her for a younger woman that she drags her kids to the temptress’s apartment and asks if she can inspect the “whoring bed.” Why she’s underrated: Talk about a scene-stealer. Thurman only makes a single appearance in Lars von Trier’s six-hour epic, released in two heavily cut volumes in the U.S., and it just might be the best scene of her entire career. Lacerating in both her vicious sarcasm and naked anguish, Thurman stops the show, exuding the outrage of a woman whose entire life has been heartlessly upheaved. Rather than sulk into oblivion, she bulldozes her way into the hornet’s nest, albeit with astonishing irrationality, moving her children around like performance art props in order to smother her ex in shame laced with arsenic. Equal parts uproarious and agonizing, this scene left my jaw on the floor. Consider Bill sufficiently killed. rogerebert/balder-and-dash/10-underrated-female-performances-of-2014
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:53:20 +0000
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