Kate Winslet is an actress whose performances aren’t defined so much by their rigid technicality, but by their manner of presence.
Much like the work of a classical Hollywood movie star, Kate Winslet’s power lies more in the brusque delivery of a cutting line or a piercing glance.
There’s a looseness writhing to get out beneath the false composure of her characters, who are almost always marked by their prickly defiance and wit.Whether bound inside a corset, or to the social and gender mores of a period setting (into which she’s often typecast), there’s a feral charm to her approach.
In a movie like “Titanic,” Winslet’s Rose Dewitt Bukater doesn’t quite fit into the stifling world of the early-20th-century upper class; that idea is taken to more contemporary extremes in a movie like “Revolutionary Road” as April Wheeler, a miserable housewife
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