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"I also started to see Dunaway’s performance for what it was, brittle and mannered and shimmering and quite, quite brilliant. Nervous as a flame, her pencil eyebrows and sharp red lipstick make her very face a foreshadowing of doom--a beautiful skull. And how her Evelyn starts as the epitome of the femme fatale/black widow only for the layer upon layer of secret shame to be peeled away from her, to reveal her as the film’s most tragic victim."
--- The 40th anniversary of Roman Polanski's Chinatown is this Friday and Jessica Chiang's piece on the movie over at The Playlist is must-read stuff. I watched the movie not too long ago for the hundredth time but this article makes me wanna run home and watch it again right this second.
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