Actress who started the takeoff of the International Goyas established in 2022 (sweeping for home) and one of the greatest actresses in general if we stick to the most academic recognitions. The Australian actress Cate Blanchett He has it all, image and gift, to give his characters that protagonism that is only achieved when a great star puts himself in the skin of the day.
Curiously, this actress becomes the latest addition to the plethora of actresses whom Almodóvar It confers that prominence that actresses do not always achieve once they reach a certain age. Basically due to prejudices and stigmas that are not completely eliminated in a world of cinema that should take the lead in equality (for example, it could be a unified award for the best actress, without any bias, as well as an idea) .
Strictly interpretive, Blanchett stands out for that malleability that makes her capable of any mutation from one of her films to another. Cate Blanchett does not pigeonhole herself or cling to a specific role because with each new performance she is reborn as a new actress who has completely played her role. A laudable virtue like a blank canvas on which to represent whatever you want...
Top 3 Recommended Cate Blanchett Movies
Carol
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Not even in his wildest dreams could he think Patricia Highsmith for her Carol to take shape under the graceful presence of Cate Blanchett. This does not mean that the novel by this asocial but brilliant writer does not have enough substance. But it is that the well-transmuted cinema manages to surpass the environment of the imagined to gain another relevance.
In this movie we recover the old misgivings aroused at the time by the love between women. Except that in her role as a lesbian constrained by circumstances, Blanchett's Carol makes us feel to a greater extent the sensation of what is forbidden by the prevailing morality that penetrates the social imaginary with the force of repudiation.
It only takes a spark for all emotional containment to jump through the air. From Patricia Highsmith who opened her soul taking her own experience as a starting point for the novel, to Cate Blanchett who makes her encounter with Therese that point of no return, that veiled confession that ends up being a scream.
A desire that becomes strange for the woman in love. A longing that at the same time is alienation put all into the context of the social situation of a time. A great film where Cate Blanchett shines and conveys the proper commitment to any form of love.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Benjamin Button's strange time is not only his time. Because on the other side of his reverse path through the world is a certain Daisy Fuller played by Blanchett who might be able to get Benjamin's spell revoked. If only because of her ability to make the moment eternal. Just what she needed her dance partner's interpretation of, Brad Pitt, in this drama about what has been lived, in the melancholic idea of the transience of everything.
The clock stops at the moments in which both protagonists coincide to face their splendor as a clash of stars. And so the film is filled with those nuances that only great actors leave as a particular imprint beyond the direction guidelines.
Of course, the metaphor, the allegory of youth as a time that does not return, whether seen in its natural evolution or as a single meeting point, becomes more relevant in two iconic actors. Without a doubt the film needed these two actors to fully convey the beauty of the ephemeral. That was the intention and that is the essence of the film. A carpe diem version of impossible love when the trains are one way there and one way back...
The alley of lost souls
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Every remake finds its hater. It is normal because everyone idealizes their favorite movies despite the evidence that the seventh art always wins with more and better means. But the writer never saw the original film and thus the enjoyment is not conditioned by anything.
A film in which we discover a Blanchett with a certain comical aspect that perhaps meant some added effort for her physiognomy and her gestures more tending to aspects of deep drama. But with her chameleon-like gift, all of her ends up caked into her interpretation of her 10. After portraying real-life personalities in due film adaptations of her, anything was possible for her.
Being accompanied by Bradley Cooper, with his picaresque rictus of easy mimicry with all paper with a modern rogue point, helps for a characterization adjusted to need. Between the two they charge a perfect bill for the remake that does not invite you to discover originals because it leaves no gaps or gaps.
In that which we indicated before as Blanchett's great virtue, her incomprehensible capacity for mutation, in this movie she shows off at different times. Sophistication or histrionics. The fatal woman or the woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, perhaps preparing for Almodóvar 😉 Variations conducted to perfection by this extremely high-flying actress.