Exactly. If she keeled over in floods of tears it would have been bad enough, but the brilliance in the acting/directing comes from the way she tries to tough it out, takes a deep breath, and flap her hands to dry her running mascara so the kids can't see she's been crying.
There's so much I...
In Love Actually, when Emma Thompson's character excitedly chooses a Christmas present to open, imagining it to be a beautiful necklace she knows her husband, played by Alan Rickman, to have bought. When she opens it, she discovers he's bought her a Joni Mitchell CD, and given the necklace to...