‘Golda’ review: Helen Mirren acts through a mask in bad Meir biopic
nypost.comsuperb “The Queen” took place during the mournful days after Princess Diana’s death, and the electrifying “Frost/Nixon,” starring Frank Langella, showed Richard Nixon during his bombshell interviews with David Frost post-presidency.
But a lot more movies and TV shows have been made about Elizabeth II and Nixon than there are about Meir. It would be nice to get to know her.The viewer would understand and care more about her actions during the war if we delved deeper into her early life in the Russian Empire and Wisconsin before she came to the Middle East.
Here, she briefly speaks to Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber) about her childhood trauma toward the end, but by then the film has already flatlined.For the most part, the role is written and performed as steely and resolute.
Such was Meir’s public reputation. Her only vulnerability we witness is that she is dying from cancer, and therefore makes frequent doctor visits in secret and starts losing her hair in the bathtub.
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