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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 3, 2024 7:47:53 GMT
In the mid-00s on Oscar Buzz, the OG Movie Awards..... they led us to believe these are the only 2 lead female performances of the decade you needed to see.
I'm going with Rampling this time tho. I feel La Pianiste is just another Isabelle Huppert performance, but it doesn't stand out. For some reason, it's been designated a stand out in her filmography, possibly because it's Haneke.... but I don't see the automatic stand out qualities. Huppert has so many great performances, this one is not even relevant.... I can just choose to watch her in pretty much anything else.
Rampling would only be like my 7th or 8th in 2000 because that year is so good. Where I don't think the majority even remembers anyone from 2001... besides Watts..... and Huppert. Me personally remember a bunch more, but I'm not blind on what I see from the members of this site.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 3, 2024 12:14:07 GMT
Might be impossible to pick actually - I love Huppert but I don't think that's at the very top of her work like La Ceremonie and The Story of Women but it's up there for me......I love Rampling and think that's her best.........both of those performances are examples of performances that are perfect and specific "character arc" - where the actor starts of by playing a scene in a precise, odd way that later illuminates the whole performance and did NOT need to be played that way - the actor is in effect "writing" the piece - or deepening it. That is another way to separate good actors from great ones.........and great performances from REALLY great ones...........
I wrote this - below - a couple years back in The Last Great Performance You Saw thread.........
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Dec 11, 2022 at 1:31am avnermoriarti, wilcinema, and 3 more like this QuotePost Options Post by pacinoyes on Dec 11, 2022 at 1:31am
Charlotte Rampling
Under the Sand
Rampling was in her mid-50s here - and she was still one of the sexiest actresses ever - at this age even.....and her looks, mystery - her very presence - lend the movie a crushing gravity.
The hardest thing for an actor to play is JUST the emotion - usually you dramatize the text.......very few actors can "play sad" or "play scared" 0r anything removed from text itself .........Anthony Hopkins and (his American version) Al Pacino built big reputations among actors out of playing just emotion when the text wasn't there - and Rampling does it to a degree here of those 2 heavyweight actors.
The difference is she isn't playing individual scenes - she's playing just emotion(s) in a whole movie and connecting the scenes herself.........and often - very often - doing it alone, acting opposite no one. Francois Ozon shoots Rampling as the central figure in an isolated and spiralling nightmare sequence that repeats - without husband, then without her emotional grounding, and finally her mind.
She enacts the same scenes - cooking, asking about the alarm clock, buttering toast in a new, sad context and when ths gets to the end - a sort of reverse Story of Adele H. - your heart breaks for what she's lost.......and is in the process of losing.....right in front of us......
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Mar 3, 2024 14:22:55 GMT
These two performances, along with Julianne Moore in Far from Heaven, make up my personal trinity of Leading Actresses of the Aughts.
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