‘The Forgiven’ Film Review: Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain Find Humanity in Some Nasty People

Blue Moon (Crai Nou) by Romanian director Alina Grigore won the Golden Shell at the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival whose top awards were swept by female filmmakers and actors.

Jessica Chastain has arrived in Spain!

Jessica Chastain is opening up about her role in 2019′s Dark Phoenix.

Dark Phoenix, saying she didn’t know her character’s name.The actor, who played Vuk and Margaret Smith in Simon Kiberg’s 2019 film, commented on the debacle surrounding the superhero flop.“I think the studio was bought at a certain point,” Chastain said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, referring to the merging of Fox and Disney which left the X-Men film in uncertain hands momentarily.“I didn’t even know what my character’s name was until I saw the film,” she went on.

The televangelist biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is in theaters now and generating Oscar buzz for actress Jessica Chastain. Doing the press rounds to help promote her Toronto International Film Festival-premiering film, the actress recently spoke with host Josh Horowitz on his podcast Happy Sad Confused (listen below).

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical, black-and-white drama Belfast claimed the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Saturday night, affirming its status as a major player to contend with in the 2022 Oscars race.

Jessica Chastain knows you can't do it all.The 44-year-old actress revealed that she had to pass on an exciting role, which eventually went to Jennifer Lawrence. While chatting with Josh Horowitz on his podcast, Chasten shared that due to scheduling conflicts she turned down a role in .“There’s so many parts where like, ‘Oh, so-and-so is going to do this.’ And then they fell out.

“The Eyes Of Tammy Faye” has received rave reviews but Tammy Faye’s daughter still isn’t sure.

Jessica Chastain is opening up about a movie role that she turned down, which eventually went to Jennifer Lawrence.

Make your own material. That seems to be the ethos of Jessica Chastain’s production company, Freckle Films that produced and made this year’s TIFF hit “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” in which she stars(and which is already starting to generate Oscar buzz for Chastain; read our review).

We’re definitely going to be seeing Jessica Chastain on the awards trail next year for The Eyes of Tammy Faye and her campaign just began!

According to the basic tenets of Christian scripture, all god’s creatures are worthy of judgment-free love. And while the hypocrisy of those words is rarely interrogated in “The Eyes Of Tammy Faye” — the bible belt preachers and communities presented in the film often fail to practice what they preach and are never forced to examine their own accumulation of wealth — these parts of the bible are really not the film’s concern.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain play Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the self-styled Christian TV personalities who did more than anyone else to mold televangelism into a game-changing, culture-shaking, credit-card-maxing industry/cult/diversion.

Watching the intriguing and unpredictable adult drama The Forgiven, which takes place right in the heart of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, I couldn’t help but think that if the 2012 book on which it is based were around a few decades earlier this would be the kind of movie Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor would have made.

“Should you still be drinking?” she asks, and it’s pointed, but everything they say to each other is pointed. Jo Henninger (Jessica Chastain) and her husband David (Ralph Fiennes) have been married for something like a dozen years, and it’s not going well; they guard each other with barely-veiled (if that) contempt, and their interactions are less like conversations than jousts, a constant barrage of little jabs and snipes.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticHave you ever noticed how, in Western culture, when referring to someone’s death, writers feel obliged to insert the word “tragic” somewhere in the sentence? Is there any other kind, a reader might rightly ask. Sometimes they mean “unexpected,” a kind of shorthand intended to show that the life in question was cut short before its time.

Watching the intriguing and unpredictable adult drama, The Forgiven, which takes place right in the heart of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco I couldn’t help but think that if the 2012 book on which it is based were around a few decades earlier this would be the kind of movie Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor would have made.