Natalie Portman’s paycheck role in No Strings Attached
(Not for nothing has she been compared to Audrey Hepburn.) Though she just won an Oscar for violently divorcing herself from those qualities in Darren Aronofsky’s bombastic Black Swan, Portman has shrewdly stayed in the business of stealing hearts. In 2011 so far, she’s been onscreen as a lot of love interests-trading bawdy barbs with Danny McBride in last month’s Your Highness, locking lips with the Norse God of Thunder in this week’s Thor and playing a bookish object of preteen desire in next week’s Hesher. And unless you count Garden State, this year she also starred in the first bona fide romantic comedy of her career: No Strings Attached, opposite Ashton Kutcher. The movie comes to DVD, Blu-ray and VOD Tuesday 10.
With her looks and charisma, Portman could have headlined a dozen date movies in as many years. But while she may be perpetually falling in and out of love in movies, she’s rarely doing it in factory-made drivel. All of which makes her appearance in a formulaic romcom like No Strings Attached perplexing. It’s hard to understand why she’d attach herself to a project like this, and watching the film makes it clear why she took so long to do so.
Very close: The two are instant fuck buddies, hopping into bed on a whim, then settling into a regular sex-without-commitment arrangement
The movie takes us back to When Harry Met Sally territory, as we wait for perfectly matched lovers to wise up to their complete compatibility. Continuar leyendo: “Natalie Portman’s paycheck role in No Strings Attached” →
Publicado el 24/3/2022 Categoría xmeets reviews.
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