All tagged True Story
Rylance is most famous for being the first artistic director for the Globe Theater in London and is a classically trained actor, working mostly in the UK. He looks much like the subject, Rudolf Abel, and gives a strangely stoic performance as the supposed Soviet spy.
Ruffalo is especially gripping as Rezendes, fighting for his childhood interpretation of the Catholic Church and his agnostic adult life, while also researching and tracking down the information needed to collar Cardinal Law.
The world Inarritu creates with his panoramic shots, use of extreme silences, and mounting tension, does not feel like our own. It’s alien to the extreme, and perhaps that’s because of the flashbacks, or the whispers that follow main character Hugh Glass into the wilderness.
