Was this suicide, or intended as his most audacious performance?
But I'm not quibbling here, just describing Ms. Mattila's vocally and physically audacious performance.
Variety praised Depardieu's "audacious performance" while the Hollywood Reporter called the film "scandalous, hilarious and somewhat tedious".
Jim Downey, who wrote the sketch, insisted that Farley's dancing ability elevated it, so that the audience was celebrating his audacious performance rather than merely mocking his appearance.
Mr. Miller is a likably hangdog Holmes, showing the glint of mania without the pyrotechnics that Benedict Cumberbatch brings to his audacious performance in "Sherlock".
This man is all id, and Mr. Pacino's enjoyably audacious performance is about an id in search of an ego.
That element of Schumann's music came through supremely in Zacharias's audacious performance of the "Kreisleriana"; he seemed to remove the bar lines and play in multiple tempi simultaneously, overlaying the mercurial and the ruminative.
He also throws in a figure who crosses the savagery and sexual restlessness of Shakespeare's Regan with the ambition and manipulation of Lady Macbeth, adding, in Mieko Harada's audacious performance, a slithery sensuality that's all her own.
The heart of the movie is the brilliant, audacious performance of Bronstein, himself a notable director; his relationship with the children seems utterly real and daringly intense, and his credit as co-writer makes clear how much the film owes to his inventiveness.
'Grease: Live' an exuberant, technically audacious performance.
