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Article: tears before bedtime Cinema The Nanny Diaries Ratatouille
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 14, 2007
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The one thing that audiences have come to associate with Scarlett
Johansson, a youthful sophisticate, is the discreet sizzle of sex.
In films such as Girl with a Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation,
she exuded an understated but potent charisma that slowly set
libidos and plots alike on fire.
The Nanny Diaries, sadly, is where that sizzle turns into a damp
squib: for much of the film, Johansson has no one to flirt with
except a peppy five-year-old boy, and when her adult love interest
finally appears you realise that she had a great deal more chemistry
with the five-year-old.
Johansson's character, Annie Braddock, is a Brooklyn-born student
of anthropology who - finding herself lacking ...
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