Lots of love for Rachel Getting Married in today's Times. Anne Hathaway gets deserved recognition (audio stuff here too) for her career-changing role; the awkward toast Hathaway's character delivers in a key moment warrants its own feature. (photo by Bob Vergara/Sony Classics)
When her turn comes to speak at the dinner, she awkwardly seizes the microphone being passed around the table and adopts the tone of a stand-up comic telling sick jokes.
“Relax, it’s only seltzer!” she begins, raising her glass and flashing a desperate, insecure smile. “Hello! I’m Shiva the Destroyer and your harbinger of doom for this evening!”
Already the expressions on the assembled faces have changed from joyous to watchful, withholding judgment, hoping for the best. But as her monologue lurches along, the camera catches the suppressed anxiety of family and friends whose faces express a complicated mixture of love, pity and revulsion; this is brilliant nonverbal ensemble acting that matches the director Jonathan Demme’s quasi-documentary style; it all feels spontaneous.
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