“This film is very, very concisely put together and as an actor it’s wonderful to work in that guide.” – Nicole Kidman, LA Times

After India’s father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

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India finds herself drawn to her father’s long-lost brother, Charlie (Matthew Goode), who unexpectedly arrives for the funeral and decides to stay on with her and her emotionally unstable mother, Evie (Nicole Kidman). While India initially mistrusts her charming but mysterious uncle, he fascinates her as well, and she begins to realize how much they have in common.

As Charlie reveals himself to her little by little, India becomes increasingly infatuated with her charismatic relative and comes to realize that his arrival is no coincidence. With her uncle to guide her, she is about to fulfill her unusual destiny.

Having made a career out of her dark, subversive character choices, Nicole opened up to DuJour Magazine about finding the light with her family.  Click through this gallery to see photos from the magazine, and read the interview in its entirety here.

Nicole plays Charlotte Bless, a boisterous, trashy blond coquette who recruits a Miami Times reporter (Matthew McConaughey) and his kid brother (Zac Efron) to exonerate the love of her life (John Cusack), the man she believes was wrongly put on Death Row for the murder of a sheriff.

The film’s Florida setting — populated by crocodiles, jellyfish and the Southern swelter of soul music — makes for a swampy, genre-bending romp that is both silly and serious. But the main word on the street is about Kidman’s performance. Back in May when the film competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote “Nicole Kidman really is terrifically good as Charlotte: funny, sexy, poignantly vulnerable.”

A.O. Scott of The New York Times brilliantly describes Nicole’s turn in this bawdy melodrama: “Ms. Kidman, garishly made up and harshly lighted, is a vampy, campy whirlwind: a femme fatale, a good-time girl and a tragic diva with a husky drawl and teased hair.”

In his ecstatic review for HitFix, Guy Lodge writes: “Finally, [Lee] Daniels again proves … he can tease some remarkable performances out of his actresses in particular: Kidman, relishing the chance to allow most of the character to the surface for a change, is more sexually strident and earthily funny than she’s been since To Die For.”

Via Audible:

To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.

Split into three parts, the story observes Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Ramsey, and their children at their vacation house on the Isle of Skye. While the novel follows seemingly trivial events between the family members, the plot takes a backseat to philosophical introspection, which gave the novel its fame as an icon of modernist literature. The Ramseys’ quest to recapture meaning creates a powerful allegory of man’s impermanent battle with the tangible world.

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Directed by multiple Academy Award® nominee Philip Kaufman (“The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “The Right Stuff”) from a script by Jerry Stahl (“Permanent Midnight,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) and Barbara Turner (“The Company,” “Pollock”), the film stars Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner Clive Owen (“Closer,” “Children of Men”) and Academy Award® and three-time Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman (“The Hours,” “Rabbit Hole”), and co-stars Academy Award® nominee David Strathairn (“Good Night, and Good Luck,” Emmy® Award winner for HBO Films’ “Temple Grandin”), SAG Award nominee Molly Parker (“The Road,” HBO’s “Deadwood”), Rodrigo Santoro (“I Love You Phillip Morris,” “300″), Golden Globe nominee Parker Posey (“Superman Returns,” “A Mighty Wind”), actor-musician Lars Ulrich (“Get Him To The Greek,” member of Metallica), Santiago Cabrera (“Che: Part 1,” “Heroes”), Saverio Guerra (“Lucky You,” “Becker”), Emmy® Award nominee Peter Coyote (“Erin Brockovich,” “Law & Order”), multiple Emmy® and Golden Globe nominee Diane Baker (“Silence of the Lambs,” “Joy Luck Club”) and Emmy® and Golden Globe winner Tony Shalhoub (“Monk,” HBO’s “Too Big to Fail”).

After watching the video, whats something new you learnt about Nicole?

Nicole and Clive Owen are featured on the cover of this month’s W Magazine and in a shoot to promote their upcoming HBO Movie “Hemingway and Gellhorn“.

Taking a look at the beautifully stylized images by photographer Emma Summerton, which photo from this ‘An Affair To Remember’ shoot is your favorite?