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Freida Pinto Proves She Can Act
Credits: Rotten Tomatoes.com
Freida Pinto is getting rave reviews for her new film 'Trishna' which was released on July 13. The film received an 74 percent positive rating on the film critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes .Here's what some Top Critics had to say about Freida's Performance in Trishna
Those who thought Pinto was just another pretty face skating by one her looks are in for a pleasant surprise. She delivers her most complete performance to date, showing range as she goes from silent, submissive young girl to conflicted young woman who takes matters into her own hands. Though not necessarily an Oscar-caliber performance, you will witness this young actress take a major step up in her career.
Trishna is Pinto's first fully realized role. The success of Slumdog Millionaire suddenly opened major doors for Pinto, but her work remained uneven. She failed to impress in Julian Schnabel's Miral -- a film troubled by its muddled and flat screenplay and was equally forgettable in Tarsem's embarrassing Immortals. In Trishna she gives her best performance in her four-years and six-films long career.
One of Winterbottom’s great accomplishments in “Trishna” is to establish that Pinto can actually act, after a sequence of roles — from “Slumdog” to “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” to “Miral” to “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” — in which she seemed utterly lost, if undeniably lovely. Another way of putting it is that Winterbottom enables Pinto to use her air of wounded-deer vulnerability to capture a convincing young woman who dares to dream big but lacks the courage, confidence or education to follow through on her dreams, and suffers tremendously as a result
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And Pinto, stoic and stunning, demonstrates why this heroine and this tale of her woe still have power more than 150 years after it was written.
5. Joe Morgenstern,Wall Street Journal
Ms. Pinto, who burst onto the international film scene in "Slumdog Millionaire," is strikingly beautiful, and her acting range may far exceed what she's able to do within the confines of this role.
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Pinto is a quiet actress whose face does amazing work, even when she is the picture of stillness. Her warm eyes and usually hidden smile convey more than she’s ever actually allowed to say out loud.
Imaginative, evocative adaptation of a classic Victorian novel is fresh and compelling, with Freida Pinto delivering a moving performance as the tragic heroine.Pinto as vulnerable and plaintive as she is sultry. Surely one of the world’s most beautiful women, she proves she can carry a film with her acting.
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Edward Douglas,Coming soon.com
The entire film is driven by terrific performances by Pinto, who is just riveting to watch on screen, and Ahmed, who has the opportunity to show more range than some of his previous roles - he previously appeared in Winterbottom's Road to Guantanamo and the comedy Four Lions.
9. Rebecca Barry Hill ,Flick.com
Tess becomes Trishna, played by Freida Pinto, whose striking beauty is her character’s greatest gift and curse. Pinto plays the character with strength and humility, despite the increasingly degrading things she’s subjected to.
As the titular protagonist, Freida Pinto connects as a foil for the film’s themes and structure. Though it may be politically incorrect to suggest, a great deal of the sympathy one feels for Trishna stems from the sheer luminosity of Pinto on-screen. Her character is so bound by traditional class and gender-based confinement, the journey happens to her, rather than of her doing. As such, her wide-eyed, unshakeable devotion to goodness almost plays like a character weakness; ultimately, we are rooting for Pinto, not Trishna, to emerge unscathed.
