"Among the bold choices in Luca Guadagnino's feverish film of William S Burroughs' novel are the late 20th-century pop and alternative soundtrack (Nirvana, Prince, New Order) for a 1950s story, and the casting of an unrecognisable, orc-like Manville in a trumped-up cameo as the shaman Dr Cotter, who was male in the original book."
"In a vision of the French capital that makes Amelie look like La Haine, Manville plays a 1950s cockney cleaner and war widow, who resolves to blow a windfall on a couture frock. The movie is mush but there's pleasure to be had from seeing Manville square off against a cartoonishly snooty Isabelle Huppert, and bring gor-blimey cheek and pluck to the stuffed corsets at Dior."
"This unjustly forgotten romcom features a plum role for Manville, as the pub singer who rides the coattails of her restless son (Shaun Evans) when he moves from Liverpool to London. She specialises in cover versions that seem to comment on the plot: particularly Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me."
"Within the first 10 minutes of this horror comedy, scripted by David Koepp (who wrote the 1993 Jurassic Park screenplay), Manville is wearing a hazmat suit and wrestling a colleague infected by a killer fungus. Not at all the sort of thing Mike Leigh ever asks her to do, and more's the pity."
Lesley Manville's filmography showcases her versatility across multiple genres and character types. In Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Queer, she delivers an unrecognizable performance as Dr. Cotter, a gender-swapped character from the source material, set against a contemporary soundtrack. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris positions her as a 1950s cockney cleaner pursuing haute couture, bringing charm and pluck to the role. Sparkle features her as a pub singer navigating her son's ambitions, with endearing chemistry alongside Bob Hoskins. Cold Storage pairs her with Liam Neeson in a horror-comedy where she plays a bio-terror expert, demonstrating her willingness to embrace unconventional material beyond her typical dramatic work.
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