The residues from Oscar season are about done, and I just finished with Notes On A Scandal, a kind of pedigree lockerroom drama about one woman's obsessions with another. Judi Dench is the steely Old Teacher; Cate Blanchett plays her unknowing object of intense affection. Its A-grade filmmaking for a traditionally B-grade genre. And it just struck me that both the leads were once up for Oscars doing the same person, another astonishingly powerful woman who knew how to play it in the bedroom.
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Haven't seen Blanchett's Elizabeth, but Dench was fabulous in Shakespeare in Love, specially at the end when she grumbles, 'too late, too late'!
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