To Die For - 1995

All she wanted was a little attention

I have always considered Nicole Kidman to be an understated actress, although her wide range of roles hardly presents a person who is scared of change. I had been keen to see this ever since I became a fan of Nicole Kidman and I have to say she is perfect at portraying a slightly evil, yet astonishingly beautiful character who can switch from one persona to the next in a matter of seconds. This film centres around her character Suzanne who after becoming a weather girl for a local radio station, decides she will do anything to be famous, too bad that her layabout husband does not seem to support her. Does she really need someone like that? Wouldn't it be nice if he just disappeared...?

This satirical black comedy from director Gust Ver Sant really shows Kidman off to be a versatile actress. Parts of the film are Kidman (supposedly in a newsroom) talking to us, the audience about her life and opinions, which is a particularly clever section of the film to include. Doing so allows the audience to be the first people to know what Kidman is thinking before she tells any of her on-screen aquaintances. Matt Dillon is unrealistically boring in his part as Kidman's husband and Joaquin Pheonix doesn't fare much better as the weird teenager obsessed with Kidman who will go to any lengths to show her. Kidman is the star however as usual and quite literally, steals the show!Only negative thing I wil say which affects my rating is that the story takes to long to get properly started and the everything seems to happen at once soon after which is not the way a film should go.

Rating 3.5/5