When I say something along the lines of Julia Roberts gives the best damn performance of her career in August: Osage County,
it is not all that bold a statement. After years of playing in films
below her ability (she is actually a fine actress, just a bad role
taker, as it were), it would not be that difficult to overtake such
performances as those found in the silly slapstick rom-coms,
holier-than-thou melodramas, and cheap wouldbe thrillers, the actress is
so fond of finding herself. On the other hand, when I say a statement
such as, Meryl Streep gives her career best performance in August: Osage County
as well, then we are in definite bold statement territory - damn bold
statement territory, indeed. Is this all true though? Well ladies and
gentleman, hold onto your hats and bonnets, because it may very well be
true. Perhaps to keep the hyperbolic owls at bay, I should probably
rearrange that latter statement to read, if not the best, but surely one
of La Streep's finest performances, but such a downgrade should not
hide the fact that her performance in August, a performance that
has garnered the iconic actress her ever-increasing unprecedented
eighteenth Oscar nomination, is right up there with her jobs in Sophie's Choice, Silkwood, and Ironweed. So there.
In
truth though (and Streep's mean-minded matriarch prides herself on
being a truth teller) it is not just Streep and, more surprisingly,
Roberts who run away with this film, for this is a production, as should
be the case with such a stage play turned motion picture (at least
ideally), that is chock full of bravura performances - a stacked deck,
if you will. Beyond Streep and Roberts, as mother and daughter Violet
Weston and Barbara Weston-Fordham, we also get a slew of stunning and
powerful (and all those other appropriate adjectives and descriptives)
performances from the likes of Julianne Nicholson as middle sister Ivy,
Juliette Lewis as baby sister Karen, Margo Martindale and Chris Cooper
as Violet's sister and brother-in-law respectively, Benedict Cumberbatch
as 'Little' Charles, woebegone cousin to the three sisters, Dermot
Mulroney as Karen's lascivious fiance (my wife tells me that Mulroney
can play sleazy with the best of 'em), Ewan McGregor as Barbara's
wandering husband, Little Miss Sunshine Abigail Breslin as their
fourteen-going-on-forty daughter, and Sam Shepard as family patriarch
Beverly Weston. Not a dud in any of these performances. Personally I
think Nicholson, Martindale, and Cooper should have been awarded Oscar
nominations as well, but then again, maybe that's just me.
Based on Terry Letts' award-winning play, and adapted
for the screen by Mr. Letts himself (the film is directed by John Wells,
best known for his role as exec producer on TV's Southland), August: Osage County
is the story of a dysfunctional family living in the small town plains
of Oklahoma. And when I say dysfunctional, I mean that in the whole
nine yards kind of way. As the film progresses, more and more layers
are peeled away, onion-like, and more and more skeletons fall out of the
collective family closets, each one a bigger and more disturbing
revelation than the ones that came before. Layer upon layer, skeleton
piled up on skeleton, this cast keeps pushing the so-called envelope,
further and further and further along, until the inevitable explosion
happens, and everything is laid bare, and ugly, and psychologically
scarred what could very well be far beyond any thoughts of repair.
Letts' words are a big big part of this, of course (Hitchcock's idea
that the three most important things in a movie are screenplay,
screenplay, and screenplay, will always be a truism to a point), but if
not for the courage of the fearless cast, this Minnow could very well be
lost - but not to worry, for they are more than up to the difficult
task ahead. Dare I even say that this is the most well acted movie this
critic has seen in a long long long time. Bravura indeed, and brava as
well.
This review can also be read over at my main site, All Things Kevyn.
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