Mulligan, bare shoulder
My latest column from AMC Filmcritic.com:
Write a post about actress Carey Mulligan stripping naked in Shame and suddenly you’re in search-engine heaven: Carey Mulligan naked, Carey Mulligan nude, Carey Mulligan nudity Shame. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Pretty, naked girls stop traffic on the street, and drive traffic on the web, and to the movie theater.
Why does Mulligan, an Oscar nominee for An Education, feel compelled to take it off, all off? Partially, it would seem, to shed that chilly BBC debutante image: Look, it’s a Bennet sister out of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice without the empire-waist period gown to hide behind!
But nudity is only brave, really brave, in context [Click to read full column]
