I'm just catching up with the news that
Halle Berry, with her first movie in three years with
Frankie & Alice, is making a late entrance into the awards season stakes as Freestyle Releasing are hoping to emulate last year's eventual Best Actor winner Jeff Bridges by crashing the party at the 11th hour and stealing the golden statue. Originally set for release in February, an Awards-minded limited NY/LA run will begin in mid-December for the 70's set,
Geoffrey Sax (White Noise) directed movie. Frankie & Alice has just begun screening for critics where
Dave Karger at EW writes;
"The former Best Actress winner for Monsters Ball gives another strong, gutsy performance as a stripper with multiple-personality disorder (her other two personas are a racist white woman and, most arrestingly, a small child)".
By another strong performance, he surely means her first since her ONLY strong previous performance in the aforementioned film a decade ago? Anyway, Freestyle have released a poster for the film and presumably a trailer is to come soon... though there's barely any buzz out there for this one... And the God's honest truth is if Berry does indeed give the best possible performance she could ever give in Frankie & Alice - she'll still never break the
Natalie Portman (Black Swan),
Annette Benning & Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right),
Lesley Manville (Another Year),
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) and
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) six that have a tight hold on those spots. I can't see how anyone not out of that group can get in the final five.