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Julie & Julia (2009)
 
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Directed
by:
Nora Ephron |
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COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Comedy/Drama |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Julie
& Julia |
RUNNING
TIME
123 minutes |
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Produced
by:
Nora Ephron
Laurence Mark
Amy Robinson
Eric Steel |
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Written by
(based on books by J. Powell, J. Child and A. Prud'homme):
Nora Ephron |
Review
Meryl Streep pins down the mannerisms and the being of Julia Child to
hilarious perfection in this pleasant but lightweight film about food,
France, Julia Child and Julie Powell – a Child fan who became a
semi-celebrity writing a blog about cooking all of Child's famous
recipes in one year. The stories of the two women's lives – in the 1940s and
2000s respectively – are told parallelly, and director Nora Ephron
struggles to link
them together in any other way than through Powell's desired
spiritual connection with Child. With that said, Ephron jumps back and
forth between her storylines with flair and elegance, and she gives both
Streep and Amy Adams the freedom to roam in front of the camera, letting
their politically correctly devoted husbands support them when
necessary. To sum up, Julie & Julia is a fine little uplifter
for the feminine half of movie audiences. The comedy is character-based
and the drama is slight, but the film has a good heart and a true
interest in food and women.
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