“Restless”: Charlotte Rampling is armed and dangerous and bewitching

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:38:00 +0000

I’m not exactly sure who a foxy Russian expat-turned-accomplished-and-then-betrayed WWII-era British spy grows up to be, but a Charlotte Rampling type seems like a very good guess. Rampling, who is now 66, is exactly the right mix of scared and scary, vulnerable and fierce, controlled and yet seemingly seconds away from insanity that suggests a woman who will always and forever know 836 ways to tie up a person and take his or her secrets. The casting of Rampling in the two-part miniseries “Restless,” in which she plays exactly the character described above — Eva Gilmartin nee Delectorskaya, a former British spy — is the only great thing about “Restless,” which premieres tonight on the Sundance Channel. But sometimes seeing Charlotte Rampling holding an outsize firearm like she intends to use it is good enough.

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“Restless”: Charlotte Rampling is armed and dangerous and bewitching