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Article: A chilling 'Capote,' caught in cold blood.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 30, 2005
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Byline: Peter Rainer Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Midway through the astonishing new movie "Capote," the diminutive author contemplates his work in progress, "In Cold Blood," and intones: "Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe."
Philip Seymour Hoffman does much more than mimic (perfectly) the dainty whine and lizardly savoir faire of the man. Plenty of nightclub comics have already done that. His Truman Capote is a fully fleshed-out portrait that lays bare the creepiest recesses of the writer's psyche. I don't think I've ever seen another performance based on a famous artist that was as psychologically acute ...