Julie & Julia Movie Reviews
August 23, 2009 by eMovie Talk
Filed under New Movie
Now people are watching Julie & Julia, which is a very popular new film, more and more people are talking about it, so let’s discuss it too.
According to Wikipedia:
Julie & Julia is a 2009 dramedy film, written and directed by Nora Ephron. The film depicts events in the life of chef Julia Child in the early years in her culinary career, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, a woman who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child’s cookbook.
Ephron’s screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child’s autobiography, written with Alex Prud’homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog, The Julie/Julia Project, into a book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005). The paperback was retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006). Both books adapted by Ephron were written and published in the same time frame of 2004 to 2006. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.
Ephron began filming Julie & Julia in March 2008. Meryl Streep portrays Julia Child, and Amy Adams appears as Julie Powell. The film officially premiered on July 30, 2009 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City and opened throughout North America on August 7, 2009.
Movie Info:
Genres: Comedy and Adaptation
Running Time: 2 hr. 3 min.
Release Date: August 7th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and some sensuality.
Distributors: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Releasing
U.S. Box Office: $43,340,386 [via: Yahoo! Movies]
The story of this film is not complicated, but it’s interesting, let’s have a look.
The Story:
Frustrated Lower Manhattan Development Corporation worker Julie Powell (Amy Adams) embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. The film also covers the years Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) spent in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was a foreign diplomat who was eventually investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy for alleged communist ties.
Cast:
- Meryl Streep as Julia Child[4]
- Amy Adams as Julie Powell[4]
- Stanley Tucci as Paul Child, Julia Child’s husband
- Chris Messina as Eric Powell, Julie Powell’s husband
- Linda Emond as Simone “Simca” Beck, with whom Julia wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Now let’s take a look at what critics said about this movie.
Critic Reviews:
Chicago Tribune, Geoff Berkshire
“Meryl Streep scores again as Julia Child, but Amy Adams isn’t so lucky.
As a writer herself and a woman in an even more cutthroat business, you would think that Ephron might shed off her usual goody-goody fantasies and stick one to Powell. Heh, ridicule in a Nora Ephron film? Even Julia Child would raspberry that one.
Nora Ephron’s winning new movie is a tonic for those seeking something different from the usual summer fare of explosions, aliens and all things gone berserk. And what a swell departure it is.
This may not be a great movie, but it’s a sweet, funny, enjoyable work with characters it’s possible to care about and fine performances straight across the board.
[via: Rotten Tomatoes]
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