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From "The New Yorker":

 

A Great Ballerina's Explosive Movie Performance

 

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Pavlova’s performance in the movie is no fluke or stunt—it’s a fully realized, deeply committed performance that reveals Pavlova to be, from the very start, one of the greatest movie actors, a charismatic and expressive actor who’s as forceful in repose as in action, as vital in quiet scenes as she is screen-bursting in melodramatic ones. What’s more, “The Dumb Girl of Portici” is directed by Lois Weber, one of the most prominent—and one of the best—directors of the time, whose place in the business and, more important, in the art of movies is only belatedly achieving the recognition that it deserves. (Several of her films, including the daring 1913 short “Suspense,” were shown earlier this year at Anthology.)

 

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