Lana is fine and she looks very beautiful throughout while giving a nice, standard 1941 performance. Ms. Bergman is timeless. I haven't watched this one in a long time, but Ms. Bergman performances are so often unforgettable. I recall being dubious the first time watching it, wondering if she could pull off the role and the accent. Those fears were solidly put to rest by the time she's singing along in the bar.
She delivers splendidly on three harrowing scenes. The first apartment scene as she's terrorized and forced to sing for Hyde, her appeal for help from Jekyll, and the final apartment scene where she's so hopeful, then miserable, terrorized, and killed. In each scene she plays upon your emotions like the strings of a violin. It's painful and distressing to watch because she knows how to make it that way. It's utterly heartbreaking to watch her final scene with Ivy believing she's finally out from under Hyde's thumb, only to be confronted by him once more. The misery she's able to express is incredible and chilling, then she runs desperately from him, only to be killed on the floor as he taunts her with the details of a life she'll never have. Ms. Bergman sells every moment.
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I used to think I knew everything about the world. Now I just know that it's round.
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