Kirsten Dunst has always been good, by Desirée de Fez

There is something very unfair in the caprice with which one worships and, suddenly, the actresses and actors are pushed aside. More to them, then, especially because of the link with the world of fashion, when they are visible they are very visible, much more than they. To this day, it seems that all the movies in the world star in them Kristen Stewart, Anya Taylor-Joy y Zendaya. The number of photos of them that slide every second on Instagram is overwhelming: how do they manage to be everywhere in such a short time? How can they be on all the carpets, the covers, the photo shoots, in all the ‘late shows’? That the focus is on them is normal: they are very good, they are promotional and, in some cases, all this is part of the campaign to place them in awards season. And it is normal that each moment has their faces. It has always been like this. But that concentration of cinematographic news in so few faces, something that has grown in an era saturated with visual impacts, contains something perverse: forgetting the rest. And that, sticking to actresses, does not necessarily have to do with a professional absence or a time of bad decisions. It is simply inertia and laziness. There is a quorum in which Kirsten Dunst she is splendid in ‘The Power of the Dog’, the latest from Jane Campion. There is also some wonder about it. The first is normal: not only is she splendid, but her performance is one of the most incredible this year. The latter is not so normal, basically because Dunst has never been bad, it just hadn’t been for a while. Or rather, he was (he hasn’t stopped working), but not in the way you have to be today to be a star: all the time, everywhere, always perfect. Instead of inflating his performance in the film with adjectives – as if he had done it miraculously well – and forgetting it two weeks later, it would be nice to remember why it is one of the best actresses in action and the importance of his contribution to cinema in recent decades. It cannot surprise us to see the protagonist of ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (1999), ‘María Antonieta’ (2006) and ‘Melancolía’ (2011) shine.