I saw her in Still Alice. Acting opposite Julianne Moore would make a bad actor look terrible but she definitely held her own and gave a touching, believable performance.
No more shade from me Ms Stewart. You’re ok 👍
Good point as Moore won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Still Alice.
For those who are not familiar with Kristen's role in this, or for those who may need to refresh their memory, here's a video edit I put together a while back containing brief clips of Kristen's performance as Lydia Howland: youtube.com/watch?v=6tIyccc0kjI
Nice little montage there.
I saw the movie only a few days ago. I was floored. So real and devastating without being sentimental in the slightest. Kristen was very good, but Julianne definitely deserved all the accolades. She amazes me the way she immerses herself into a character. There’s not even a hint of pretence in her acting. Better than Meryl, for my money.
If you liked Kristen in Still Alice, you'll probably love her in Clouds of Sils Maria, where she upstaged Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche. Speaking of accolades, I believe this is the reason why the critics recognized Kristen by awarding her with some of the most prestigious film critics awards in the industry for her performance in COSM: New York Film Critics Circle - 1st place, Los Angeles Film Critics Association - 2nd Place, National Society of Film Critics - 1st place, and Boston Society of Film Critics 1st place, just to mention a few. Normally, winning such awards, especially the NYFCC award, was a precursor to being nominated for an Oscar.
And Kristen didn't resort to an over-the-top, outlandish, flamboyant, hammed up, overly exaggerated character acting performance, which some moviegoers misconstrue as good acting--of course such acting has a place in screwball comedies but not so much in dramas, where Kristen acts in a manner in which good method actors of the past have done, by a natural, low-key, subtle and nuanced performance which made her an instant icon among the French, who awarded her with a Best Supporting Actress Cesar at the 40th Cesar Awards, Frances equivalent to the Academy Awards. Yes, Kristen became the first American actress to have ever won a Cesar. Kristen again won over the hearts of the French with another noteworthy performance in Personal Shopper along with her titular role in the political thriller drama Seberg, a film based on the life of French actress Jean Seberg.
Lastly, as some of her fans, such as Carved, Ron and myself, will attest to, many of her best roles came when she was still a teenager: The Cake Eaters, Into the Wild, Adventureland, The Yellow Handkerchief, and Speak. Heck, one of her best performances to date came as a preteen in the thriller Panic Room.
She was good in the Clouds of Sils Maria. (The movie had some weaknesses, but her performance wasn't one of them.)
shareShe was good in Still Alice - and better in Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper and even the otherwise routine Adventureland. As I skipped the whole Twilight phenomenon, I know her as a rather good actress who makes sometimes interesting choices.
shareI saw Personal Shopper last night. Wasn’t completely sold. KS was ok but boy it meandered. I almost switched it off a few times then there would be an interesting scene which kept me watching, then more plodding. In the end I really didn’t care about the character or her supernatural encounters. The texting portion was particularly trying, like if I wanted to see someone text for 40 minutes straight I would go visit my nephews.
I know the film was lauded but I found it a trying experience.
I was mixed on the film as a whole, but I found it intriguing enough to keep me watching. I was quite impressed with Stewart’s performance - she really held my attention even when, as you say, the movie rambled.
shareYeah the more I see of Kristen the more I like her. She has a very moody presence (she hardly smiles in anything I’ve seen her in) but that doesn’t bother me so much. Some actors have a style and that fits for the roles I’ve seen so far. Would be interesting to see if she could pull off a comedy role.
shareA good actor/actress will do good work in all their films... even a bad actor/actress can get it right once in a while. How many shitty performances has Stewart have versus how many good ones, that is the question to be answered.
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