Tuesday, September 27, 2005

David Thomson

“Miss Turner has angry eyes. I thought so when she first appeard, in Body Heat … No matter how obliging, overwarm, and available her Matty made herself in that film, didn’t the eyes warn us of danger and intrigue too heady for Ned Racine? She could not keep the warning light of Femme Fatale out of her eyes. It was still there, at the end, when Matty is tanning in her listless paradise. She should have stayed home and fed on weak men forever.

“It was a remarkable debut, a begging part in a clever, funny celebration of male disaster. Along with her eyes was a voice that had an unaccountable harshness—did it come from the years spent in Latin America as her diplomat father got posted around? Ther was a strength in the woman that seemed likely to break out. It was not entirely comfortable….”

David Thomson
A Biographical Dicitonary of Film,
Third Edition (1993), p. 760

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