Of all the reasons to love Dame Helen Mirren — her taste, class, grace, skill, discipline, fearlessness and ageless eroticism among them — 2010 might be the year we get the best look at her versatility. Having already given us the outsized wife of Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station , the Oscar-winner arrives in theaters this week as the flat-accented, fur-clutching, no-nonsense brothel madam Grace Bontempo of Love Ranch . October will bring the action-packed intrigue Red , featuring Mirren’s turn as a former CIA spook eluding an assassination rap alongside Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich. The jury’s out on the latter film, but the long-delayed Love Ranch (directed by Mirren’s husband Taylor Hackford) indeed provides a worthwhile study of grande dame by way of Nevada desert.
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