--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > As you can probably tell, I've been on an Eva Green > kick lately. :-)
Yeah, what, six years now and running. >Knowing that she was about to appear > as Morgan Le Fay in the STARZ "Camelot" TV series, > I went back to catch up on some of her past perform- > ances. So I watched the extended director's cut of > Ridley Scott's "Kingdom Of Heaven." I had to watch > that version because 7/8 of her performance got cut > out of the theatrical version. I thought she was > good in it. Then I watched her in "Camelot" and felt > that she was as good as the material permitted her > to be. > > But today I watched her in a 2009 film called "Cracks," > which I am given to understand is English girls school > slang for "crushes." And lo and behold there is again > a Scott Connection -- the writer and director of this > film is Ridley Scott's daughter Jordan. She is some- > one to watch; this movie is good. > > And Eva Green finally lives up to my expectations for > her as an actress. Her performance in this film can and > should be compared to the best work of Isabelle Adjani. > > She plays the glamorous diving instructor at a remote > girls school full of young women who were all pretty > much sent there for a few months by their parents > several years ago, and are finally figuring out that > their parents are never going to come to take them > home. The girls have "cracks" on their worldly mentor, > and she has cracks on them. When a new girl arrives, > and the teacher develops a crack on her, we start to > learn that there are other kinds of cracks in the > teacher's worldly facade. > > Jordan Scott does her daddy proud. This is as good a > film as most of his, and many of Francois Truffaut's. >
