Fiona Shaw: A Norma Desmond For a New Generation
You hear critics toss around the phrase “worth the price of admission alone� too often. And far be it from me to recommend that you throw s good money at the bad movie that is Brian De Palma’s “The Black Dahlia.�
But there is the performance of Fiona Shaw to consider, which means that you should put “Dahlia� in your Neflix queue. You won’t have to wait long. The movie will be out of theaters and on DVD in a matter of weeks.
Shaw is only in two scenes. I can’t even post a photo of her from the movie, even though the Universal press kit offers a whopping 34 images, mostly of Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson and Aaron Eckhart. No one will remember them years – make that weeks – from now.
Shaw, however, has punched her ticket to destination of “camp classic.�
Now it should be noted that Shaw is a classically trained actress, a darling of the British stage and a woman known for pushing the extremes in acting. That makes her a perfect fit for what De Palma asks of her here, which is basically to make like Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Blvd.�
That she does – and more. Shaw’s first scene takes place at a family dinner table. She plays Hilary Swank’s pill-popping mom, a two-fisted drinker downing a glass of wine with one hand and a double shot of bourbon in the other. You can see why the woman is unhinged – she’s married to a loudmouth criminal, necessitating a 24-hour regimen of booze and anti-depressants just to maintain the will to live. And even that’s not working.
Shaw’s first scene lasts about two, three minutes and after she lurches out of the picture, many people in my Mann’s Chinese audience applauded, recognizing they were witness to film history.
And when Shaw shows up later in the movie, she somehow tops herself. More I cannot divulge. You have to see it for yourself. It’s not worth the price of admission. But it’s proof, to paraphrase the great Norma Desmond, that Shaw is big. It’s just her movie that is small.
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