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'The Present' Review: Cate Blanchett Shocks Broadway Into The New Year by Jeremy Gerard

Casually removing her bra or tying a pink ribbon into a perfect bow atop her head, Cate Blanchett makes erotic art of the inconspicuous act. That’s a neat trick and a handy gift for the actress playing one of Anton Chekhov’s two types of women, the ethereal beauty undone by ennui. (Type two is the non-beauty undone by idealism. We’ll get to her shortly.) In The Present, which opened Sunday at …

SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PM on January 11, 2017

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