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(Youre addicted … Would it kill you to comb your hair?)
No one wants to publish her short stories she has a glove compartment crammed with rejection letters from magazines.
But online she can be someone she thinks other people need.
If you didnt know that Nancys pregnancy is a sham, youd be moved by their conversation.
More important, Nancy is moved.
Theres enough emotional truth in Nancys lies to suggest that shewantsto believe theyre true.
Shes not a psychopath.
Shes just very, very damaged.
The thing is, she looks a lot like a photo-artists rendering of how Brooke would look at 35.
The thing is, she might wellbeBrooke.
Which would explain a lot.
Ellen knows at once that Nancy is Brooke and all but throws herself on the younger woman.
Scene by scene,Nancyis riveting.
You dont want to keep these performances at arms length.
Riseborough is a true chameleon actress who seems to change color from the inside.
She plays Nancy as a woman traumatized to her core, in a self-protective daze.
Her eyes rarely blink, but their focus is inward.
To the question, Who is Nancy?
she would probably reply, I dont know either.
And you understand why Buscemis Leos eyes are less on Nancy than his wife.
This is Choes first feature, and she like both Nancy and Ellen sometimes tries to do too much.
When Ellen told Nancy she teaches Shirley Jackson I let out a howl.
(I merely tittered when Ellen told Nancy that Nancys writing reminded her of Joan Didion.)
But Choe does what she needs to do.
