Supporting Actress Review: Ingrid Bergman in "Murder on the Orient Express"

I'll be doing this on and off for random winners/nominees; just doing a short write up of my thoughts on these ladies.

  "I was...born backwards."

Bergman's role as a quirked out, unusual Swedish missionary on a train full of other odd individuals hardly stands as a big accomplishment in her lengthy career in film. However, while all of the others in the all-star cast seem to be having fun with there roles, I felt Bergman took her role seriously. Perhaps too seriously.

She's always trying to find a way to add depth to her bland character (tics, facial expressions, shaky line readings), but she never rises above adequete. She doesn't really deliever a "bad" performance, but it was something that was just there and didn't needed to be rewarded by Oscar. I believe that her performance stuck out due to her impressive and rather long monoluge during the interrogation scene which was done in one take.

Might be a worthy nomination, but the win took it way too far.