For some time, DiCaprio succumbed to the fame the Titanic brought to both, and his career began to sink. When he talked about Woody Allen’s Celebrity movie years ago, where he played a cheeky and bloated superstar, he admitted that he was actually playing himself there. At the beginning of the new millennium, he had to reconquer his journey to the top. Undoubtedly he succeeded, he grew into one of the best and most acclaimed actors today.
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Nothing like this has met Kate Winslet, she has used the star’s reputation, including two Oscar nominations (for Reason and Feeling and Titanic), to work in films that are sometimes less brilliant than Cameron’s, but mostly independent. She is said to have turned out a starring role in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and the King (1999), so that she could play, for example, with Harvey Keitel in Jane Campion’s film Like Smoke (1999).
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The following year, with Philip Kaufman, she made Quills – The Marquis de Sade Pen, with Richard Eyre the drama Iris, which earned her her third Oscar nomination, with Michael Apted Enigma, and with Michel Gondry. nomination. She was only 29 at the time.
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Seven Oscar nominations
To this day, she has seven nominations, one of which she changed: for the lead role in Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. In addition, he already has four Golden Globes and many other awards. Among the films in which she showed how she is constantly growing as an actor is the Emergency Exit (2008) of her then-husband Sam Mendes, in which she met DiCaprio again after ten years. We could also name the film God of Massacre (2011) by Roman Polanský, where she performed an acting concert in a quartet with Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.
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Also worth noting is King’s Gardener (2014), where she played under the direction of director Alan Rickman, or Steve Jobs (2015) by Danny Boyle.
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Viewers can see most of her best films on Netflix or the HBO Go platform, where she literally shines in this year’s Mare from Easttown. It is a seven-part miniseries that depicts life in an American small town full of social and relationship problems with great impact and persuasiveness.
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Which is nothing new, we know quite a lot of such miniseries and series, but this time the creators are very slowly and, above all, thoughtfully revealing not only possible perpetrators, but also the past and present of the local population with the title heroine at the helm.
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Actress in top form
Winslet plays the top detective Mare Sheehan from the Pennsylvania town of Easttown, who, after failing to find the missing girl, solves another tragic case – the murder of a young mother of a little boy, only seventeen-year-old Erin, who was found dead in her juvenile the bay.
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Mare is mostly overwhelmed and as if tense with an impending burst of emotion, and at the same time impenetrable and inaccessible. However, thanks to the actress’ charisma and performance, it is not as annoying to other as other permanently gloomy detectives, but rather to be honestly curious about what fate has put on her shoulders and with what pushed her to her current tuning. And there really isn’t much…
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In Mare of Easttown, it’s far from just an investigation into a murder accompanied by the fate of the protagonist. Winslet plays one of the inhabitants of the town, so we gradually get to know the whole local community with advantages, but perhaps more with the curses of such close coexistence.
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Everyone knows everyone here, everyone is someone’s cousin, the main newspaper article and the subsequent celebration are about the success of the local girls’ basketball team – twenty years ago.
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When one of the residents reports a burglary, neither she nor Mare have the slightest doubt about the perpetrator, whom Mare immediately pulls out of his lair. At the same time, however, he knows his own, to put it mildly, unhappy situation, and he knows that sending him behind bars would be the easiest of all solutions, but also the worst.
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The fates of four generations of local families reflect perhaps all the problems that people in today’s world solve. Even the problems from drug addiction and juvenile delinquency to social problems, and the traumas of the past, may be too much.
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However, screenwriter Brad Ingelsby and director Craig Zobel have found a reasonable line between the ancient tragedies that inevitably led to how and what people live in Easttown today and the more positive level represented by Mare’s daughter or the arrival of a likeable writer to a town where You definitely wouldn’t want to live, just immigrated. They dull the edge of the feeling that the world is just a place to suffer, they also offer hope that something can be overcome and managed.
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But Mare from Easttown is above all a great concert by Kate Winslet, whose acting is rightly compared to that of Meryl Streep, and because of which (at least) it’s worth a series that, unlike many others, doesn’t take weeks to watch.
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