Sympathetic. Alluring. Cryptic. She plays the blonde bombshell with a reserved yet simmering energy, pitch-perfect for her role. Neither trying too hard, nor upstaging too much, actress-on-the-rise Rachel McAdams is a fine fit in maverick filmmaker Ira Sach’s pulp romantic thriller Married Life.
In an ensemble that would excite the most jaded of actors, McAdams holds her own among Oscar winner/nominee stalwarts: Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Pierce Brosnan. In pointing out her magnetic essence, Sachs succinctly put it: Rachel has that "thing--that light" that makes a star a star.
Set in 1949, Sach's taut gem of a tale revolves around the suspenseful comings and goings of two couples that intersect on a leveled playing field, where crime, infidelity, love and tenderness co-mingle, indiscriminately, with abandon and repression. McAdams' Kay at its center inspires a domestic murder plot as mistress of a hapless married man.
The smart, arresting ingénue raps 'bout femme fatales--and her romantic ex, Ryan Gosling--while exploring marriage and moviemaking then and now.
