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Viewing at: Sterkinekor
Release Date: 13 November 2009
Directed By Nora Ephron.
Screenplay By Nora Ephron & Julie Powell
Produced By
Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson, Eric Steel & Nora Ephron.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci & Chris Messina.
Genre: Biography Comedy.
Classification: PG 13
Running time: 123 Minutes
Release Date: 13 November 2009
Directed By Nora Ephron.
Screenplay By Nora Ephron & Julie Powell
Produced By
Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson, Eric Steel & Nora Ephron.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci & Chris Messina.
Genre: Biography Comedy.
Classification: PG 13
Running time: 123 Minutes
This movie was quite fabulous! It is something serene and feminine, it brings something home that has been missing for quite some time... Some of the articles I have read on Julia Child was that because of her, Americans started cooking again, she was the reason for getting rid of microwave dishes and take-outs. This woman is about: pearls-in-the-kitchen and loving-butter-all-the-way! She is the reason why I love being a woman, everything about her way of living and loving is so true to the feminine heart. I understand Powell's fascination with Julia, I am developing the same craziness...
Poor Meryl is not a hottie in this one, I have to just say how completely and utterly fascinated I am with her; this woman can play absolutely ANY part imaginable! If you can dream it, she can play it! I am shocked how she can go from Donna Sheridan in “Mamma Mia” to Julia Child in “Julie and Julia”, she is really one gifted lady. I bow down to you – oh gifted actress of the ages – all hail to Meryl!!!It felt like watching the elements of cooking written together in a recipe of Life and Marriage. Mouth watering aroma's all around – Julia squeaking voice, all thrown together in a dish called everyday life!
The story takes part in two scenes. The one is with Julia and her amazing husband Paul (played by Stanley Tucci) in Paris in the nineteen-fifties. She is restless, and is on a seeming tour to finding her passion in life. Trying everything from making hats to painting, but all she seems to know how to do, and is extremely good at it, is: eating! Thus the love for food begins and the journey is enfolded with lots of butter, garlic, spices, meats and sauces! Julie Powell (Amy Adams) is a wife in Queens who lives in 2002, she works for a government organization that is involved in rebuilding the World Trade Centre.
She seems to be a woman who loves her husband and cooking. It feels like she has lost her way though. Doing a job she clearly is not in love with, she decides to cook all 524 of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” – in Julia's cook book, and she plans to do it in 365 days and blog about it. Julie found a way to connect with herself, she found something she is good in, in her struggle with life, she found something that makes her want to get up in the morning and she was good at it!
Blogging is what I like to call the “fake” author. It is almost the same as reality T.V.'s fake “celebities”. The difference is that Powell was an actual writer and her book became this movie...
One of the most outstanding features of this film is the fact that Julie became a “better person”, and “better wife” because of this challenge. She finds herself. There is stages where one gets the idea how selfish she became, but to me a story needs to end better than it began; the same as in cooking.Julie got to know Julia through this experience, although it turned out to be different than what she anticipated – the difference is that it happened. She connected with a woman she never met, on a deep emotional level and it taught her to be her... Julia was for Julie a symbol of growth and it left a good taste. One cant ignore certain elements in this movie. Clearly Julia could never have children, and the longing in her life was visible, it seemed that children never was a bother to Julie.
They both were happily married, it was like Nora created a interesting sex live for the conservative Julia. It is almost to say: Who needs kids? We have good food and great sex! A compromise, if I may call it that... There was never explicit sex, always just the insinuation towards it that made it so fascinating.I like the unexpected ending. I have always been a favourite when it comes to story telling, literally before fame hits. I think that characteristics are so scares and one never knew those people before they become what we know them as... I loved the platonic way of doing things and the effort it took was phenomenal, nothing back then, came as easy as things do these days.Both these stories are true, both have an impact on society today, and both portray something that is lost to the feminine realm... I thought it was very entertaining and funny! The language was incredible, this is the way men and women are suppose to talk ladies and gentlemen. The story was told amazingly and everything about this movie is almost edible... Don't be surprised when you go home hungry.
I am giving it a tasteful 8/10!
See you at the Movies!
Poor Meryl is not a hottie in this one, I have to just say how completely and utterly fascinated I am with her; this woman can play absolutely ANY part imaginable! If you can dream it, she can play it! I am shocked how she can go from Donna Sheridan in “Mamma Mia” to Julia Child in “Julie and Julia”, she is really one gifted lady. I bow down to you – oh gifted actress of the ages – all hail to Meryl!!!It felt like watching the elements of cooking written together in a recipe of Life and Marriage. Mouth watering aroma's all around – Julia squeaking voice, all thrown together in a dish called everyday life!
The story takes part in two scenes. The one is with Julia and her amazing husband Paul (played by Stanley Tucci) in Paris in the nineteen-fifties. She is restless, and is on a seeming tour to finding her passion in life. Trying everything from making hats to painting, but all she seems to know how to do, and is extremely good at it, is: eating! Thus the love for food begins and the journey is enfolded with lots of butter, garlic, spices, meats and sauces! Julie Powell (Amy Adams) is a wife in Queens who lives in 2002, she works for a government organization that is involved in rebuilding the World Trade Centre.
She seems to be a woman who loves her husband and cooking. It feels like she has lost her way though. Doing a job she clearly is not in love with, she decides to cook all 524 of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” – in Julia's cook book, and she plans to do it in 365 days and blog about it. Julie found a way to connect with herself, she found something she is good in, in her struggle with life, she found something that makes her want to get up in the morning and she was good at it!
Blogging is what I like to call the “fake” author. It is almost the same as reality T.V.'s fake “celebities”. The difference is that Powell was an actual writer and her book became this movie...
One of the most outstanding features of this film is the fact that Julie became a “better person”, and “better wife” because of this challenge. She finds herself. There is stages where one gets the idea how selfish she became, but to me a story needs to end better than it began; the same as in cooking.Julie got to know Julia through this experience, although it turned out to be different than what she anticipated – the difference is that it happened. She connected with a woman she never met, on a deep emotional level and it taught her to be her... Julia was for Julie a symbol of growth and it left a good taste. One cant ignore certain elements in this movie. Clearly Julia could never have children, and the longing in her life was visible, it seemed that children never was a bother to Julie.
They both were happily married, it was like Nora created a interesting sex live for the conservative Julia. It is almost to say: Who needs kids? We have good food and great sex! A compromise, if I may call it that... There was never explicit sex, always just the insinuation towards it that made it so fascinating.I like the unexpected ending. I have always been a favourite when it comes to story telling, literally before fame hits. I think that characteristics are so scares and one never knew those people before they become what we know them as... I loved the platonic way of doing things and the effort it took was phenomenal, nothing back then, came as easy as things do these days.Both these stories are true, both have an impact on society today, and both portray something that is lost to the feminine realm... I thought it was very entertaining and funny! The language was incredible, this is the way men and women are suppose to talk ladies and gentlemen. The story was told amazingly and everything about this movie is almost edible... Don't be surprised when you go home hungry.
I am giving it a tasteful 8/10!
See you at the Movies!
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