To Leslie is perhaps Andrea Riseborough’s most “conventional” role following nearly two decades of deeply weird character work.
As is standard for much of Riseborough’s earlier work, her contribution to Tom Ford’sis a delightful moment of bit-part scene stealing. Alessia is an exceedingly minor character, part of the film’s fleeting framing sequence at the movie’s onset. Even so, she manages to be the most memorable part of this sequence, which otherwise only exists to situate Amy Adams’s Susan Morrow in the world of ostentatious high art and to give way to the novel that takes up most of the film.
The result is an affecting turn, one that filters her considerable talent and charisma through a generous helping of approachability.What makes Riseborough’s performance as Joseph Stalin’s precocious daughter work so well is just how out of place it feels increator Armando Iannucci’s whip-smart political satire. Among a sea of fast-talking figureheads, her Svetlana sticks out like a sore thumb for the sheer stupidity with which she plays the role.
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