Word: malkovich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to see why Isabel would attract Campion (The Piano), who is drawn to women trying to assert themselves against the social and sexual rigidities of their moment. On the other hand, Isabel's unfathomable devotion to the contemptible aesthete Gilbert Osmond (whose black heart John Malkovich always wears on his sleeve) seems in particular to flummox her feminism. This leads her and screenwriter Laura Jones to soften James' bleak conclusion, but long before that, this Portrait has blurred to the point of indistinction...
Considering that it has stars as flashy as Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich, Manuel de Oliveira's latest release, "The Convent," dives suprisingly deep into the obscure. Even those blessed with an adequate understanding of Goethe's Faust, the Old and New Testaments and astrology may not be able to follow the characters' thoughts and actions as they glide through the rubble of an ancient Portugese convent...
...basic storyline is easy enough. American professor Michael Padovic (Malkovich) needs but a few more documents to prove the gist of his thesis that Shakespeare was of Spanish origin, not British. Supposedly, the archives of the convent of Arrabida contain the marriage contract of Jacques Perez, the man Padovic claims is the true Shakespeare--"Jacques Perez," when mangled into English, could conceivably sound like Shakespeare...
...Both Malkovich and Deneuve portray their characters adequately; Padovic is as sexy and patronizingly intellectual as Malkovich's character in "Dangerous Liaisons," and Deneuve plays both the discontented wife and the love manipulator with the same blank, dark face...
Theater: John Malkovich takes on Lee Harvey Oswald...