"The camera lingers often on the slipping lines of Rampling's face, under which bone and muscle still move with the confidence of youthful beauty. When Ruth declares she wants "one more passionate love affair" it's plausible ..."
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I'd rather watch one Charlotte Rampling film than five Judi Dench films. In JUNIPER, Rampling is enthralling as a former war journalist grandmother whose lifelong risk-taking, alcohol-abusing lifestyle has left her friendless and practically estranged from her son, despite the intensity of human feeling within her. The camera lingers often on the slipping lines of Rampling's face, under which bone and muscle still move with the confidence of youthful beauty. When Ruth declares she wants "one more passionate love affair" it's plausible, and when she barks crisp profanities and brains her own grandson with a glass tumbler tossed across the
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