The acting, from a large, all-star cast, is superb, especially Hank Azaria as Blitzstein, Ruben Blades as Diego Rivera, John Cusack as Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Sarandon as a wealthy Jewish-Italian woman who is an intermediary between the fascist government and an American industrialist, Vanessa Redgrave as the industrialist's wife who loves slumming among the artistic types, and John Turturro as a low-level actor who emerges as the principled and dedicated… [read post]