“Supernatural,” she exclaims. “It was really supernatural. “It was surreal how entirely he occupied Madoff’s personality. During a screen test I read a scene and… he just transformed.”
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Telegraph: “De Niro’s Best Role in Years”
“For the first time in years, the inscrutable De Niro had a meaty role to sink his teeth into. He conveyed Madoff’s pangs of conscience and self-justifying monstrousness with subtle facial expressions…”
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Fox Business Interview and Film Synopsis
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Washington Post Review
“No one understands Madoff’s profile better than Diana B. Henriques, who filed dozens of stories on Madoff for the New York Times and wrote the book on which Levinson’s film is based. She also appears as herself in the jailhouse interview scenes that frame the story, making her acting debut across a thin metal table from Robert De Niro…”
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Interview on WGN Radio
Vanity Fair: Interview With Barry Levinson
“…he was struck by a different dimension of the catastrophic crime: the Shakespearean tragedy of a father’s greed destroying his own sons.”
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Salon Review
“Levinson trains the film’s focus on the intimacy of Madoff’s betrayal. Scene after scene bristles with close-ups of the people closest to Madoff as they struggle to respond truthfully to questions for which they have no solid answers…”
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