Winona Ryder can move fluidly from playing a strait-laced wife in Nineteenth-Century high society to a college grad in Gen-X hell without missing a beat—only to trot back to Nineteenth-Century New England as a first-wave feminist.
Then she can follow that up with her most provocative, and sexual, role yet: oddly enough, that of a Seventeenth-Century teenage vixen. For all of her cool pedigree and attraction to the edge, Ryder's a composite of characteristics from the archival American cinema: a dollop of Chaplin's baggy imp, a dash of big-eyed Lillian Gish, all girlish frocks and tremulous fragility.
Don't mistake her, however, for timid: While her earnest enunciation pleads for you to listen and understand, the firm set of her jaw signals that you must.
Here at last is a book that captures Winona Ryder's spectacular performances and public poise in gorgeous detail. Featuring a biography, extensive interviews, reviews of her movies and spectacular photographs by Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Brigitte Lacombe and others, this is a stunning tribute that makes it clear why Winona is one of the most admired and important actors in Hollywood today.