Tom

"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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A ★★★½ review of Juniper (2021)

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

Jan 22, 2023 at 10:57amWeb
Show threadAprilJan 23, 2023

@attentive

I loved her in Swimming Pool, and I love to hear her described this way 20yrs later. It gives me hope. 🙏

Show threadTomJan 23, 2023

@april

She's superb in this. Post-menopausal women are horrendously underserved in visual culture, and I love that Rampling doesn't concede at all to mere comedy or pathos.

She doesn't always get the best roles, but it was to imagine who else could've delivered this one … there are some other contenders like Brian Cox or Ian McKellen, but she might be my favourite actor over 70.