I am sat here watching Cold Mountain, almost losing the will to live thanks to the awful performances from Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, then along comes Renee to wake the whole film up
I must admit I haven't seen Cold Mountain so I can't comment specifically on her performance in that, but, generally I can't stand the woman and have hated her in virtually every role I've seen her in.
I agree she was appalling in it. Maybe if you are american then you can understand more of what she says but some of it was so difficult to interpret. And it annoyed me that she screwed up her face for the entire film for no good reason!