A new film by Nicole Kidman, who has maintained her status in Hollywood for 30 years, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Kidman is known for these roles.
of Venice seven minutes of thunderous applause was heard at the film festival at the end of August.
The object of milling was Nicole Kidman starring erotic thriller Baby girl.
In the film about sadomasochism, Kidman plays a powerful CEO who begins an affair with a much younger intern (Harris Dickinson) with. Kidman was awarded for her role with the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival.
Kidman, who has had a Hollywood career of more than 30 years, has been the best in the film according to reviews. Kidman’s performance has been compared to a cult film appreciated by critics Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
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Hero actor In recent years, Kidman has smoothly transitioned from leading roles in films to being a regular face in streaming series.
He has been seen in the 2020s Expats and Undoing in such television dramas in a rather similar role: an ethereal and wealthy woman facing a life crisis.
“We’ve seen Kidman as a sad, privileged woman far too many times,” wrote Lucy Manga of The Guardian in the estimate.
This year, Kidman has already appeared in three films and two streaming series, but the two most recent ones have already seen a slightly different Kidman.
Baby girl-as the lusty CEO of the thriller and The Perfect Couple series as the evil mother-in-law, Kidman seems to be making a return to her earlier turn-of-the-millennium roles. Those roles were united by exceptional courage and the ability to throw oneself.
HS put together a timeline of Kidman’s most notable film and television roles. Kidman’s roles are listed in chronological order from the 1980s to the present day.
1989: Breakthrough in horror cinema
Kidman, who was born in the United States and grew up in Australia, can be considered a thriller as her breakthrough Fat cushion (Dead Calm, 1989 Australia). That’s Kidman and Sam Neill play a couple vacationing on a sailboat. While
the husband is away, an intruder appears on the boat and begins to subdue and torture the wife, played by Kidman.
Kidman was only in her twenties at the time of filming, but still managed to live up to the role of a wife older than her age, wrote of the Guardian critic Luke Buckmaster in 2015.
1995: Thorough role work with an art director
In a black comedy At any price (To Die For, 1995 Canada). Kidman got to play art director By Gus Van Sant with the help of his expertise.
Kidman plays a woman who strives to become a world-famous television star through questionable means in the film about the perverted television publicity of the United States. According to director Van Sant, Kidman learned the script in a way “she’s never seen before.”
“Nicole was so familiar with the scenes that she was like another director,” Van Sant said For The New York Times.
1999: Unforgettable wife role in a cult film
Inter alia The glow a well-known master director Stanley Kubrick’s the last movie Eyes Wide Shut was personally important to Kidman. of The Wall Street Journal in an interview, Kidman says that Kubrick changed her whole life.
Eyes Wide Shut an exceptionally long production kept Kidman in the film for almost two years. However, the actor was in no hurry for new roles.
“I would have stayed for a third year,” he says in a Los Angeles Times article published in June in the interview.
The erotic passion thriller left the audience cold when it appeared, but later rose to cult fame. It is also known as Kidman and the actress Tom Cruise’s as the last film together before the couple broke up.
2001: Musical role in a modern classic
By Baz Luhrmann mega production Moulin Rouge! is Kidman’s most notable musical film role. In the film, which has become a modern classic, Kidman plays a cabaret star who falls in love Ewan McGregor’s to present to the penniless young poet.
During the filming of the musical, things happened and happened. Kidman said In a 2001 interview with Entertainmentthat she broke one of her ribs in the corset required for the role.
Kidman received an Oscar nomination for her role and won several other awards.
2002: Oscar-winning author character
Kidman won the best actress Oscar for her role as the writer As Virginia Woolf.
by Stephen Daldry guided by Hours(The Hours, 2002 USA) was based on the hit novel and offers a cross-section of Woolf’s life. The New York Times selected the film in 2004 as one of the 1,000 best films of all time in the world.
The film is also remembered for Kidman’s character about the nasal prosthesiswhich received praise but also horror.
2003: Surrounded by chalk
Danish director by Lars Von Trier the movie was something completely different: a large part of the movie set is drawn with chalks on the floor.
Dogville! is an invisible village in Depression-era United States. The plot tells about Grace, played by Kidman, a mysterious stranger who arrives in the village and is chased by gangsters.
In the experimental film about revenge, however, the main star is Kidman’s face, which the camera relentlessly follows, it was written In HS’s estimation.
2013: Tragic diva in a drama film
In a drama film set in 1960s Florida Zac Efron’s the journalist he plays returns to his hometown to investigate a murder case. Kidman plays the woman the reporter falls for.
The New York Times describes the film as a messy but serious lesson in journalistic ethics and race relations in the United States.
According to the magazine, Kidman’s character is a “flamboyantly made-up femme fatale” and a tragic diva. In the film’s most famous scene, Kidman’s character urinates on Efron’s character after he is stung by a jellyfish.
2016: A touching supporting role as an adoptive mother
The Saroo boy gets lost from his big brother and goes to sleep on the train standing at the station. The train takes him a thousand kilometers away from home and Saroo ends up in an orphanage. From there he was adopted by an Australian couple.
Kidman’s poignant supporting role as the boy’s adoptive mother was praised by critics.
“In her small role, Kidman brings to the surface the pain that a well-intentioned person feels when he knows that he is unable to help his loved one, in this case Saroo’s deeply troubled foster brother”, is praised In HS’s estimation.
The film, based on true events, received six Oscar nominations.
2017– 2019: Producer and star in a favorite series
This HBO favorite was Kidman’s jump into the world of streaming series. Big Little Lies is about five Californian mothers and their family relationships.
Kidman played domestic violence victim Celeste Wright in the series. He won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for his role.
“Big Little Lies, which presented dizzyingly beautiful landscapes and perfect kitchen surfaces, grew towards the end into a touching and addictive story about the cycle of violence”, describes Editor of HS Talk about Sarhimaa series as a whole.
2019: Uutiskanava’s determined career woman
Based on true events BombshellKidman stars in the movie Gretchen Carlsona Fox News anchor who brings up the sexual harassment he experienced and is eventually fired.
The film continued the discussion about harassment and abuse of power sparked by the #metoo movement that started in 2017.
2020: A saving role recommendation in a lame courtroom drama
In a six-part series published by HBO In Undoing Nicole Kidman plays a therapist whose life goes downhill. Many critics with this series should not have been made at all. However, the reason was not in the actors, but in the script.
“Kidman and [Hugh] Grant do a competent job, but the characters don’t have enough layers for a plot like this,” wrote the critic Ian Freer In Empire film magazine.
2024: A sad cosmopolitan in Hong Kong
Expats-miniseries tells about three American women living in Hong Kong, whose lives are in crisis. Margaret, played by Kidman, is plagued by a secret sadness that is revealed at the end of the series.
of The Guardian the critic Lucy Mangan think that choosing Kidman for the series was a boring move. Janice YK Lee there is still a series based on the hit novel praised as a versatile portrayal of women.
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