Rachel Weisz Does Comedy

In the globe-trotting con-artist movie The Brothers Bloom, two lifelong grifters (Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo) devise double-crosses so fabulously complex that they begin to lose track of where real life ends and the bamboozle begins. To them, everything--identity, love, friendship, death--is a lie.

Even the film's title is a classic bit of misdirection, because the movie isn't really about the guys, after all. It's about the marvelous mark they pursue: Penelope, a basket-case New Jersey millionairess with a thousand talents and just as many fabulous outfits. And the saucer-eyed, seemingly guileless actor playing Penelope--Rachel Weisz, as you have definitely never seen her--steals the film right out from under the brothers' noses.

"When I first saw the script, it was actually called Penelope," says Weisz, a London-to-East Village transplant, from whom we've come to expect sober cinema. "I got offered a lot of dark dramas after The Constant Gardener, but this was the character I'd been looking for for a long time."

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