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twisted
FOR JESSICA, ASHLEY JUDD’S SAN FRANCISCO COP IN TWISTED, PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE KEEP GETTING TANGLED UP -
ESPECIALLY AS SHE BEGINS TO LOOK LIKE THE SUSPECT IN HER OWN MURDER
INVESTIGATION. MAX LEVANT PRIES INTO THE DANGEROUS WORLD OF PHILIP KAUFMAN’S LATEST MOVIE.
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Ashley Judd would have had a hell of a time making a movie career in the fifties: the kind of strong, free-minded women’s roles in which she has all but cornered the market couldn’t be further from the happy home-makers or Doris Day-style romantic heroines who inhabited the first decade of widescreen Technicolor features.
The actress, who first attracted attention in 1993 in Ruby in Paradise playing a young woman setting off from rural Tennessee to make a new life in West Florida, has continued to win out over formidable odds in her subsequent starring roles, most noticeably as the young wife whose fifties-perfect world is torn apart by a ruthlessly selfish husband in Double Jeopardy.
But even that dilemma - which saw Judd’s character survive everything from prison-life to drowning - pales by comparison with the challenges she faces in her new thriller, Twisted. The plotline alone - a police officer investigating a series of murders begins to find the evidence trail leading straight back to her - could be described as ‘multiple jeopardy’. But what Twisted (directed by consummate craftsman Philip Kaufman) offers Judd in addition to what was to be found in those previous roles is the chance to develop a whole other side of her screen personality: her sexuality.
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