Swedish star Rapace, who has made a career out of playing badasses since her international breakthrough in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011), reinvents herself with a fragile and guarded performance in Icelandic entry Lamb, playing a sheep farmer scarred by trauma, whose life is transformed by a mysterious discovery, one that will ultimately destroy her and her husband. The survivors include several standout performances from established talents, with name recognition highest for Spaniard and Oscar winner Bardem, who gives a slickly entertaining turn in Fernando León de Aranoa’s dark workplace dramedy The Good Boss as a charming, if ethically dubious, head of a family-owned factory who crosses every sort of boundary in the name of business. Rita Moreno to Receive Producers Guild Honor
Many of the more high-concept films in the running this year - including Julia Ducournau’s French horror-thriller Titane, the South Korea action-adventure Escape From Mogadishu and the Hungarian period horror movie Post Mortem - didn’t make the international feature shortlist, leaving a group of 15 that are less defined by the theme or genre of their stories than by the actors who bring them to life. There is no such thing as a best international acting Oscar, but the choice for this year’s Academy Award for best international feature could be decided as a competition between the acting veterans (Javier Bardem, Noomi Rapace, Dan Stevens) and the newcomers (Italian first-timer Filippo Scotti, Kosovar breakthrough Yllka Gashi), whose performances are at the heart of the contenders for the 2022 awards.
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