the Oscars will ignore [Tilda Swinton's] genius work in I Am Love this year and poor Annette Bening will lose yet again to Natalie Portman?s red contacts.
Bening, in case you've been in a cave, starred in The Kids Are All Right, a chilling psychological horror story about a patriarchal lesbian named Nic who reasserts control of her family after their carefully preserved alternative-lifestyle paradise is invaded by a penis belonging not to a gay porn star, like the ones she watches on DVD while son and daughter are pretending to do their homework, but to a free-spirited dude played by Mark Ruffalo's beard. For the crime of introducing a little loose-limbed fun and adventure into this family, he's driven away by the beady wrath of Bening's righteous territorial imperative (very Sam Peckinpah), his own biological son refusing to look at him as he tries to explain and then waves an apologetic goodbye--the mother having reduced the son to a eunuch wuss through steady applications of silent, calibrated disapproval intercut with a thin smile whose cruel edge defines passive-aggression.
I agree with Tom Shone:
For us, the real revelation in The Kids Are Alright was not Annette Bening, who's performance felt like an expensive engine just ticking over, but Julianne Moore: skittish, daffy, as loose as Keaton in her prime, her body acting about two seconds ahead of her mind, or morals, or any other bit of her.
Julianne Moore came alive during her afternoon romps with Ruffalo, her body flushed and her freckles vibrating from these Ecstasy raves in the sack, only to be punished for her forbidden pleasures by being forced to live forevermore under the watchful judginess of her wife warden Nic, denied any further visitation rights from a penis or male-operated tongue. It's a tragic role that deserves greater recognition than it's gotten, but if Moore were to be nominated she too would probably lose out to Natalie Portman's nasty shoulder rash in Black Swan. Going by the critics' awards, that rash is on a roll.
Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/12/no-no-annette.html
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