Proof 
Proof: Review
Saturday 08.19.2006
alice ttlg || 09:08 PM
Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow give excellent performances here, wonderful chemistry between them. Hopkins is commanding as always and it fits beautifully with the character he's playing, just the tiniest bit of vulnerability showing in between his mad demands and odd behavior.
Gwyneth's performance reminds me of Sissy Spacek's edgy control in 'Night, Mother, she walks a very fine line between depression and madness, brilliance and despair. Jake Gyllenhaal is a marvelous surprise here, I hadn't realized he was in the movie until he turned up and he gives a great performance as a modern geek.
It's a play so it's about the dialogue which is very good, the triangle of Catherine, Claire and Hal plays out throughout the film, while a cast of thousands wanders in and about them, at the funeral and at the house after but never detracts from the primary three characters while Hopkins looms large in the background.
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