Susan wrote: <<I just saw this movie last week with that "new woman." She had seen the movie already but really wanted to see it again. I thought the performances were masterful. Yes in this case I must give it up for Nicole, but I felt that Meryl and Julianne were just as brilliant. The surprise for me is Ed Harris. Since I saw him in Pollock and with this performance, he steps into a much higher echelon for me. I was stunned by his performance - and I usually like the girls!>>
A very good movie for me too, Susan. (I was waiting for someone to post about it.) I too thought the performances were wonderful ... although I also felt it was something of a true "ensemble" piece because of the performances of the supporting cast -- the man who played Virginia's husband ... the child who played Julianne Moore's son (I won't say anything further) ... he was positively spooky he was so good I thought. The friend I went with doesn't have much of an appetite for brooding movies (whereas *I* on the other hand ...) and remarked that Julianne Moore's performance had "too much staring off into space." Well, whatever. I joked with her that all those women could probably have used a good dose of Prozac ... Excellent film, though. I'm hoping to next see "Adaptation." In another movie vein, I'm itching to get a board game I noticed in a Restoration Hardware catalog, something about movie trivia. The only problem is no one around me knows as much about movies as I do so I'd probably be sitting in the living room all by myself answering the cards I'm reading saying to myself, "Oh, nice answer Lindsay!" "Man, I never would have gotten *that* one, Lindsay!" I'm ill. Very, very ill. Lindsay
