![]() ![]() She offered a finely detailed performance as an unhappily married woman who connects with an equally unhappily married dad (Patrick Wilson) in a John Cheever-esque study of suburban malaise and emotional immaturity. Winslet evolved into a Hollywood heavyweight in the mid-2000s, and this ensemble drama – from another highly regarded awards-bait director, Todd Field – got her her third best actress Oscar nomination. Winslet won some of her best reviews for yet another essay in the defiantly unglamorous. This, though, must have been a can’t-refuse: the role made famous by Joan Crawford, with the impeccably stylish Todd “Far From Heaven” Haynes at the controls. Winslet is not the type to spread herself too thinly, so the fashionable flood of event TV doesn’t figure much on her CV. Now, though, it looks a bit like a rehearsal for Top of the Lake. This once seemed a bit of an oddity in the Campion canon, an idiosyncratic change of pace after the high Hollywood literariness of Portrait of a Lady, with Winslet playing a guru-follower subjected to deprogramming by counsellor Harvey Keitel. Once she attained industry clout, Winslet always sought out major directorial names, so her connection with Jane Campion was something of a no-brainer. ![]() Winslet with Harvey Keitel in Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke. It all looks a bit queasy now, and Winslet – strong as ever – has to contend with a slightly boring role. Winslet in one of her less glamorous parts: her washerwoman Madeleine, in the notorious Charenton hospital, catches the eye of the Marquis de Sade, confined there in his later years. As was once her wont, Winslet gives it both barrels as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s impressively mounted production: she is a screaming fury. Winslet, in intellectual Coke-bottle specs, helps lovelorn Dougray Scott track down missing glamourpuss Saffron Burrows Winslet was starting to grow out of this sort of thing, but she gives a good account of herself. Enigma (2001)Ī solid wartime thriller – now somewhat overshadowed by The Imitation Game – adapted from Robert Harris’s novel about the activities of the Bletchley Park codebreakers. ![]() Winslet was cast as Dench’s younger counterpart, a free-spirited student bicycling around Oxford – a role she could do in her sleep. Richard Eyre’s biopic of Iris Murdoch was dominated by the heartrending rapport between Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent as the author and her husband as dementia took over their relationship. Winslet as the young Iris Murdoch in Iris. ![]()
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