It really is a movie about the kinds of relationships you file away in the back of your brain and the melancholy memories that return in small flashes as you get older. Ah, summertime!

Just dazzling and delightful. This quote really struck me this time:

“I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest. And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.“

So rarely are women allowed to play and vamp onscreen in such thorny, tragic roles. Daniel Day-Lewis, Al Pacino, and F. Murray Abraham have all played men who’ve flown too close to the sun and here, Blanchett says, “my turn.”