Sundance '08: days four and five: She wants to die

Maria Bello was having breakfast where I was this morning. She's unexpectedly petite, kept company with a tall, broad Jake Gyllenhaal-like creature who carried her stuff, and was wearing what looked like a giant yak hide. Maria, forgive me if it was just some synthetic poly-something blend, but it looked yaky. Anyway, she seemed like a lovely young lady, and she's here because she's starring in "Downloading Nancy," a perfectly ridiculous, Susan Hayward-style thriller about a suicidal housewife who goes online and hires her killer (a very fit Jason Patric), only to kind of fall in with him. (Man, I love screenwriting.) The music-video director Johan Renck gives the movie some trashy style, and Bello does enough acting to rip the skin off a yak, which she might have already done.