51�Թ�

That year, he also had a small but memorable role in “Lilith,” a film drama starring Beatty, who later said “the best thing about ‘Lilith’ was Gene Hackman.”

It is hard to root for Lilith or Blanchett to succeed since the film and her performance are both such failures.

Throughout it all, as if battling to emerge from quicksand, Blanchett commits to Lilith’s fierce nonchalance.

Blanchett plays Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past who reluctantly returns to her home of Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy.

Lilith Fair came during a period of critical and commercial prosperity for female artists in a number of traditionally male-dominated genres like rock, folk and that wide-ranging radio format called “alternative.”