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Title: Vanity Fair: September 2016 Issue

Author: Vanity Fair

Narrator: various narrators

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-16

Publisher: Vanity Fair

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

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Members Reviews:

I Love Alicia Vikander â as an Actress. She Gets Nine Glorious Pages of Photos

I fell in love with Alicia Vikander from the movies, natch. She gets NINE (yes, nine) glorious pages of photos in this issue of Vanity Fair. All are glamour shots (with clothes, shucks). She, of course -- looks gorgeous in each of âem, so I thought Iâd at least describe them for you (further below).

But first, the history of my relationship with Alicia â through her movies. Spoiler alert: I give away all of the plot points from here, so beware.

My first exposure to Alicia was in the movie âEx Machina.â She plays a robot (yes, robot) who gets involved in a sort of love triangle â with two guys, both of whom are badly casted. I say that â because neither of the gents is very likeable (or maybe that was the point). Alicia, the robot â eventually wants her freedom and kills both of them cleverly (at the end of the movie) to get it. Unfortunately, for Alicia, the only part of her shown on the robot was her beautiful face. (She has no hair and the rest of her mechanical body is computer generated.) So the amount of emotionality she could bring to the role was limited, and the director had her play the character very straight (as a basically emotionless robot). I didnât realize until months later (after I had seen the movie) who she was. Unfortunately, the film had a predictable script â and was mainly built around Aliciaâs cool CGI representation. Too bad.

My next film was where I fell in love with Alicia â for her acting ability â where she appears in a little known art-house production called âThe Testament of Youth.â She plays a British woman coming of age in the time at the start of the First World War. To make a long story short, everyone sheâs close to (four men) all die in the war. They are her fiancé, her brother, and two other close friends. Before they perish, Aliciaâs character insists on participating in the war, so she becomes a nurse and is sent to the front â where, serendipitously, her brother ends up in her hospital, given up for dead â and she saves his life. (It is one of the more touching episodes in the film.) She nurses him back to health â only for him to be killed later in Italy. (The family is notified via a bicycled messenger.) Her fiancé dies (while fixing barbed wire, as told to her by an officer she tracks down) right when they are about to be married. She is almost literally left at the altar. (Another touching scene.) Her two other friends die of their wounds suffered in the conflict. After the war, Aliciaâs character becomes a peace activist â one of the first of her kind â and writes a best-selling book, upon which this movie is based.