Precisely. I felt both actresses gave a great effort.
When you sleep with the devil, you pay.

I think they were both brilliant in this filmeach perfectly inhabiting her character. The Dunaway scene that stands out for me is when she was watching the old film of herself as a singer. Her face is a lesson in acting effectively.

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I Love Natasha Richardson

You are correct.

Dunaway had a very good role in this movie; very complex. The problem is that she wasn't vulnerable enough in the scenes in which the audience was supposed to feel sorry for her. I think that's always been her problem as an actress.
Speaking of creepy scenes
NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!
From MOMMIE DEAREST worked very well for her. But there was no room for any vulnerability in that scene anyway, and I really don't remember any of her other work that called for it.
(Except that scene may have hurt her career. It ranks at the top of my list of most shocking/distasteful scenes)
And the most frightening thing about that movie was how it was based on real life.
YIKES!

Natasha was the star of the movie

'The Handmaid's Tale' was the first movie I saw Natasha in and I thought she was wonderful.
You can't really compare her role to Faye's - They're opposites in the story. I loved Faye, too, though, and I do think her character evoked some sympathy - At least I felt badly for her; she was a celebrity back in the day and was reduced to a very subjudated role in the 'new order' of Gilead.
Natasha certainly didn't shy away from the nudity involved; she had a lot of guts to do it
How sad to lose her so young!
Six inches is perfectly adequate; more is vulgar!' (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Re: An open window).

Natasha forever

As for myself, I think Faye Dunaway played Faye Dunaway.
RIP Natasha Richardson

Dunaway had a very good role in this movie; very complex. The problem is that she wasn't vulnerable enough in the scenes in which the audience was supposed to feel sorry for her. I think that's always been her problem as an actress.
By constrast, Natasha's role isn't nearly as complex, and despite her character's circumstances, it seemed as if she was holding back, deliberately trying not to make her character seem weak or vulnerable.
That's why, when she breaks down after being ritualistically raped by Dunaway's husband so that she can have a baby for them, it's such an emotional moment for the audience. And from that moment on we're rooting for her to f238ind a way out.

Sure Natasha was wonderful in this filmshe was sweatie, lovely and she acted very well than Dunaway was like always the nasty and wicked bitch

Don't you all realize that it is a reworking of the thing in the bible that says that if a handmaid (or servant girl) gives birth on the knees of her lady then the child is the same as if the lady gave birth to it? This was a way that barren wives could have their own children. I believe it is in Genesis. These people just did the conceiving on the knees of the lady instead of the birth, and the birth was a ceremony to encourage the handmaids and women of the area. Their own skewing of the bible.

Is no contest Natasha was more beauty

I think the wives
wanted
to take part in itinsisted on it, so they could feel as if they were in charge of what was going on and were part of the ritual of procreation.

"BTW, that movie had some of the creepiest, jaw-dropping scenes ever."
I just watched this, and I agree completely! The first "ceremony" scene had me literally cringing. Those poor women. And the fact that the wives had to actually
participate
in the
rape
I think that's what freaked me out the most.
A great movie though, one that definitely hit a nerve and had me thinking about it for days afterward.
rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell

That scene is exactly as described in the book, except in the book Kate's been through it before, whereas in the movie it's her first time, giving Natasha an opportunity to be as freaked out as the the audience.

Agree with the creepy factor. The scene that comes to mind was the "ceremony."
That whole process was beyond crazy.
"Some day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th CenturyJTR"

Yep. No contest.
BTW, that movie had some of the creepiest, jaw-dropping scenes ever.