Paprika Steen,
Michael Falch,
Otto Leonardo Steen Rieks,
Noel Koch-Søfeldt,
Lars Brygmann
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When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys.... read more
DVD Release Date: November 24, 2003
Stats: 72 reviews
The actors are very good, and the story is touching, but it's a predictable and overused plot. So, it's a good movie, but it could have done something to make it stand out more and make it different.
I found the trailer online the other day and I can't wait to see it. Steen is a powerful actress and can make any film incredible.
I saw Applause at Virginia Film Festival. Paprika was so powerfull and she gave a great performance. The story was like just happend around us. It was so real
This historical film is quite fascinating. The camerawork was excellent, very creative and the effect is great. Interesting use of shadows as well, very unique. Helen Morgan is excellent in the lead role. It's a strong story, more brutal than I would have expected. Rouben Mamouli... read more
technically, this isn't a musical. but it features a gut-wrenching performance from the great torch singer helen morgan as a burlesque queen making a life for her and her sheltered, convent-schooled daughter.
As much of [Steen] as there is, you'll want more. Full Review
Paprika Steen makes this particular character her own. And makes us join her adoring on-screen audience as we watch her play out -- gorgeously, horrifyingly -- her own tragic scenes. Full Review
Director and co-writer Martin Pieter Zandvliet draws inspired work from Steen. You feel her every emotion. Full Review
There's no real fight in Applause, though there is indisputably a great deal of acting. Full Review
Zandvliet and Steen create an unvarnished saga of a recovering alcoholic whose acting career makes all that teetering on the edge of one-day-at-a-time very public. It is a singular performance and a d... Full Review
There's nothing pretentious or overly difficult about "Applause"; it runs less than 90 minutes and features a bona fide star performance. Full Review
[Steen] brings a thrilling emotional nakedness and an astringent, unsentimental honesty to the part. Full Review
Usually an enervating process to witness onscreen, Steen's subtle calibrations of self-hatred and raging narcissism exhilarate. Full Review
A whirlwind demolition derby of an acting job by Ms. Steen. Full Review
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