Rose’s decline after he arrival at chez Burbank is quite the plunge. Dunst, however, is so good, so heartbreakingly real, that she makes it all believable. An actress who has been superb in so many movies, gliding back and forth with ease between lead and support, this is the role that finally gets Dunst her due and, hopefully her first Oscar nomination.
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The great German director (Christian Petzold) reunites his gorgeous stars from the baffling Transit (Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski), this time for a story that flirts with the myth of the water nymph, Undine.
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Dev Patel is Gawain, not quite yet a sir, the nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris) and Queen Guinevere (Kate Dickie) and the son of Morgan Le Fay (Sarita Choudhury), who practices witchcraft. The bulk of the movie centers on Gawain’s journey across the wet, verdant English countryside (the film was actually filmed around Cahir castle in Ireland).
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These women have no past and no character to latch on to so, after a while, you begin to feel unclean. The naked and decomposing female bodies pile up serving no purpose except to give a background to two cops who, we slowly realize, have little or no moral standing.
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“The Woman in the Window” gives Amy Adams another opportunity to act up a storm in a project that is not worthy of her talents.
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