Also with Gore Vidal, Alan Rickman, Giancarlo Esposito, Brian Murray, and Ray Wise.
Rickman (Severus Snape) is delicious, here, reduced to just a handful of lines but savoring each and every syllable.
The one exception is Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), whose father (Alan Rickman) does everything to protect her from the killer.
Backstage, Linklater showed Rickman a draft of "The Vandal" and braced for criticism, hoping that might even fuel his onstage rage.
In that play, Linklater played a budding playwright frightened to share his work with his crass, pugnacious novelist-turned-tutor, played by Rickman.
But that is to sleight the contributions of Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and so many others.
The talents of Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson and Kristen Scott-Thomas nevertheless conspire with Mr Minghella's bravura film-making technique to crush the play's humours.
Rickman is unexpectedly romantic here, and very funny besides.
Rickman and Hoffman recognize the tale for the rich, exotic nonsense that it is and offer ripe performances to match unlike Whishaw, whose sniffing intensity turns the young devil into something of a humorless bore.
This is not to suggest the Bard of Hogwarts is up there with the Bard of Avon, only that her words turn into music coming out of the mouths of such performers as Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson.
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