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DAY-LEWIS AND THE SEASON OF GRANDEUR

In Phantom Thread, Day-Lewis plays a 1950s couturier reminiscent of storied designer Charles James

PHANTOM THREAD • DEC. 25

THE QUALITY THAT MAKES DANIEL DAY-LEWIS A great actor—that aura you see so clearly onscreen yet can’t quite put your finger on—may be this: no matter what he’s saying or doing, whether he’s standing or walking or even, as in The Last of the Mohicans, running so magnificently through the forest in buckskin trousers, his eyes and his body language impart a whispered secret. It sounds a little like,

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