Cinema's tasty treats Aug 7, 2009
Johnny Depp is her gypsy love interest, Alfred Molina the self-righteous mayor, Judi Dench a crotchety landlady who melts with spicy hot cocoa and Lena Olin an abused wife who finds liberation in the business. Will create constant cravings for: Chocolate in all its fantastic forms, from hot (perhaps with a sprinkling of chili pepper as in the movie) to cold to a fudgy topping over French vanilla ice cream to the finest dark chocolate truffle. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
A mother lode of entertaining TV moms May 10, 2009
COLD WAR: FAMILY EDITION Irina Derevko, "Alias" Played by Lena Olin. So let's get this straight. (Boston Globe)
* Never judge a book by its movie Mar 27, 2009
He has a run-in with a flinty camp survivor (Lena Olin), who puts the case for the prosecution once again, even as Hanna grows old in prison. She continues to work her way through the canon of Western literature, but all those books, all those words, never seem to be absorbed, or have any impact on her personality or thought. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Between the lines Feb 22, 2009
The survivor, played by Lena Olin, calmly rejects Michael's role as Hanna's emissary and also the search for expiation implicit in his having come. "The camps were not therapy," she tells him. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)