Margaret is out today in New York and Los Angeles for an exclusive engagement at the Landmark Theatres in both cities. The film will be in San Francisco, Detroit, Philadelphia and San Diego on October 7th. If you’re in either city, go support Anna and the film.
ETA: I’ve just returned from seeing the film this evening and it was worth the wait, Anna was fantastic in the film.
Whilst I don’t normally post reviews on the site, The Hollywood Reporter has compiled a nice list of what critics are saying about Anna’s performance in the film.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
The Hollywood Reporter’s Sheri Linden wrote that the actress is convincing in the role and gives credit to the director.
“Lonergan has a sure touch with actors, and his portrait of upper-middle-class, intellectual New Yorkers never feels false, even if the dramatic impact remains more theoretical than felt,” she wrote.
The Associated Press critic Jake Coyle was more effusive in his praise of the actress.
“Paquin is exceptional,” he wrote. “Even if she hadn’t become a star from True Blood since Margaret was filmed, this performance — searching, ferocious — would have done the trick.”
Time’s Mary Pols echoed that sentiment.
“Paquin is spectacular,” she wrote. “The character is almost too precocious, prone to dropping George Bernard Shaw phrases into her speech — ‘Not that I want to make this woman’s death into my own personal moral gymnasium.’Yet in Paquin’s hands, Lisa is completely believable, and the realization of the potential the actress showed in supporting roles in 25th Hour and The Squid and the Whale.”
Rex Reed of the New York Observer also had praise for the actress, if not the movie itself.
“Anna Paquin delivers a very fine performance in the very odd starring role of a very bewildering film,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times film critic Betsy Sharkey had a hard time believing Paquin in the role.
“Paquin, as good as she is, is such an old soul that it’s hard to buy her as a teenager, even a precocious one,” she wrote.
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Is great to read that is a great movie but I’m vey upset about how the film is being sold. There’s not promotion: not a premiere or screening with the actors, not interviews, not comercials… nothing. Not to talk that the True Blood sites are in total silence about this movie, the sites I checked didn’t mention the movie was opening this weekend, never!!! and with the lack of promoting Lord knows this movie need a bit help of TB fanbase to have a bit of selfpromotion. The thing is that I’m not surprised because most of them did the same with The Romantics. I find their attitude towards Anna so passive aggressive… I mean they’re always promoting and updating other actors work (some of them almost weekly and specially with male actors), but with Anna never happens. Why are they so supportive with some actors carreer and not with the rest? I don’t get it, specially when this is the only movie with 2 TB actresses.
I don’t know if I’ll have the oportunity to watch this movie but I’ll wait whatever takes, I read amazing things about Anna’s work. May I ask about Anna’s work? I’d like to heard a bit more from a fan