Marcel Winatschek

Girl In The Garden

Amber Heard exists in this strange space where you can’t look at her work without the noise around her bleeds in. She’s a good actress—you see it in the smaller roles before everything happened. Whatever this is, whoever this character is, there’s something there worth paying attention to if you can get past the weight of her name. The thing about public figures who become synonymous with controversy is that their craft gets buried under the story. Sometimes that’s fair. Sometimes it’s a shame.