Kristin Scott Thomas gives liberating performance in French drama
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
FEMME FATALE: Kristin Scott Thomas as Juliette
In screen roles such as her Oscar-nominated turn in The English Patient, Kristin Scott Thomas personifies aristocratic elegance — like a U.K. equivalent to Katharine Hepburn. In reality, Thomas may be English more by birth than by choice. She’s lived and worked in Paris since she was 19 and speaks perfect French. For decades she’s worked in French films such as I’ve Loved You So Long, where her role as Juliette Fontaine still qualifies as casting against type: Thomas plays an ex-con who served 15 years for a crime that seems like the stuff of Greek tragedy. (more…)
