It is a deeply sentimental portrait of a brilliant mind and troubled heart. But what you may not know, is she how she arrived there. If you know anything about Garland, you know where she is going. Instead the narrative depends on Garland trying to understand herself, while making poor choice after poor choice. It finds no purpose in portraying her issues with callousness. While this is a softer portrait, it still feels authentic. What the story lacks in structure, it makes up with warmth. While most of those around her only see a washed up star, who was just forty seven. The film uses flashbacks in order for the audience to understand her character. Control, the Joy Division piece, is maybe the best in recent years. Rami supposedly was great in Bohemian Rhapsody, but the film encompassed a superficial sentiment and lacked intellectual curiosity.
By contrast, Liverpool is also jaggedly uneven. Comparably, Zellweger's performance outshines the more renowned Benning. There have been many so-so bio-pics as of late, most comparably Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, in which another great actress, Benning, portrays the troubled last days of another great actress, Graham. Watching her performance is like watching a cosmic display. Like many great performances, you see the character and forget that there is even an actor.
With Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland, you can not only feel her and see her, but you forget Zellweger is even there at all.
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