Just saw this movie, and was very impressed by Samantha Morton's acting. For some reason there are few actresses I find good, don't know why. But she made it look so natural. kudos.
shareAgreed. It's a shame the film was not promoted enough to get noticed by Oscar voters...
shareI was thinking the exact opposite. She does a good enough job in some scenes, but the emotions in the Debbie-Ian interactions are non very convincing, IMO. That's as much Riley's fault as it is Morton's, though. The two main actors are two of the reasons why this movie fail to rise above mediocre.
shareI think her performance is the best in the whole movie. She stole every scene.
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Samantha Morton is a brilliant actress (watch Morvern Callar if you haven't. She's great in it).
She's supposedly a real bitch to work with, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzuFeXYbOOo
She broke my heart at the end.
This is my age! I'm in the prime of my youth and I'll only be young once.
The bit at the end when she was wailing in the street was BREATHTAKING. It's really difficult to act that kind of raw emotion and shock.
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~ I thought her performance was wonderful. Morton's motion and feelings was perfectly done. It touch my heart, especially the ending. Totally powerful stuff. All that pain must of been awful for the real Debbie Curtis.
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Agreed
24 is and always be the best show ever!
"The bit at the end when she was wailing in the street was BREATHTAKING."
Amen, brother. :'(
Frankly, I thought her whole performance was surprisingly good. I mean, I liked her in "Sweet & Lowdown" and "In America" -- it's just that I would've thought her a little old for the part of Deborah Curtis (Morton would have at least been pushing 30 at the time, while Debbie aged from her mid-teens to early-twenties during the course of the story here). But no, I'd say she brought just the right balance of girlishness and maturity to her role. :)
"I know I'm not normal -- but I'm trying to change!" ~ Muriel's Wedding
"right balance of girlishness and maturity to her role"
exactly.. well said...she is a sublime actress
Check out 'Longford.' It played in the US on HBO as an HBO co-production. It was a recounting of the famous 'Moor Murders' case and the involvement of an English peer (Lord Longford) in the case.
shareAgreed, I thought she was the best thing in the movie, especially in comparison the actress playing Annik (which wasn't really her fault, the script didn't do anything to flesh out her character, just made her gorgeous and European).
shareThe bit at the end when she was wailing in the street was BREATHTAKING. It's really difficult to act that kind of raw emotion and shock.
Yeah it did bring it home at the end when she was wailing, you could feel it. The whole final scene was made well in my opinion, especially when you see the smoke coming out of the crematorium with the camera following the smoke up into the sky. And again with the actors performances, Toby Kebbell as Rob Gretton was great, he was very funny.
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"Though damaged intensity is her signature, she can convey it quietly and understatedly. In Anton Corbijn's Control (2007) she captured all the emotional complexity of the quiet and accepting Deborah Curtis whose inner heartbreak and anger suddenly breaks though in one explosive scene."