F***ed: Actress Peak Performance Barometer?
A woman getting pounded into by a man oblivious to her distraction, turmoil, inner life: Any cinema that attends to such an image surely has an eye to that woman’s strengths and vulnerabilities in other ways that surprise and resonate.
Which of these performances do you most admire, or look forward to seeing? Do you know of others like them?
- Melanie Lynskey in Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- Julianne Moore in Safe (1995)
- Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Nicole Kidman in Birth (2004)
- Tang Wei in Lust, Caution (2007)
