JULIE
&
JULIA
With
Meryl
Streep,
Amy
Adams,
Stanley
Tucci,
Chris
Messina,
Linda
Emond,
Mary
Lynn
Rajskub,
Helen
Carey,
Jane
Lynch
Written
by Nora
Ephron
based
on the
books
Julie
&
Julia
by Julie
Powell,
and
My Life
in France
by Julia
Child
and
Alex
Prud'homme
Directed
by Nora
Ephron
This
very
innovative
combining
of two
real
life
tales
in two
time
periods
takes
the
viewer
into
a culinary
world
from
Paris
to New
York.
But
before
getting
to that,
it's
time
to get
something
off
my chest
- What
the
hell
is it
with
American
movies
and
the
absolute
insistence
upon
having
a minimum
of one
scene
where
somebody
has
to speak
with
their
goddamn
mouth
full?
Well,
in this
one
it is
a veritable
barrage
of annoying,
disgusting
jabbering
with
a mouth
full
of food,
especially
from
Julie's
husband.
In the
making-of
extra,
director
Ephron
tries
to explain
this,
but
fails
to convince
me,
as all
it spells
out
is:
that
just
like
a mainstream
screenplay
has
to contain
characters
named
Frank,
Jack,
or Molly,
and
the
oft
used
essential
cliché
montage
of one
character
having
to sit
and
give
a range
of outfit
changes
the
thumbs
up or
down,
I don't
believe
a script
gets
greenlit
unless
it contains
at least
one
scene
with
someone
stuffing
their
face,
and
not
having
the
manners
to swallow
their
goop
before
speaking!
Now
- the
tall
Julia
Childs
became
one
of America's
cooking
icons
with
her
legendary
book
on French
cuisine,
also
leading
to TV
shows.
This
combined
biopic
takes
the
viewer
through
Julia's
travels
in Paris
and
interest
in food
which
grew
into
taking
classes
and
becoming
the
figure
she
ended
up being,
and
counters
it with
the
present
where
a woman
lost
within
herself
decides
to take
up a
task
to give
her
life
meaning.
This
task
is to
cook
her
way
through
the
524
recipes
from
Julia's
famous
cookbook
in 365
days,
and
blogging
about
it.
These
tasty
biographies
intertwine
marvelously
(if
only
they
didn't
eat
with
their
mouths
full!).
Etiquette
should
be part
and
parcel
when
it comes
to food,
not?
Extras:
a commentary
track
from
writer/director
Nora
Ephron,
and
making-of
featurettes.
PS.
I was
fascinated
to see
that
Eric
Steele,
the
director
of the
controversial
documentary
The
Bridge
is one
of the
producers
of this
movie.
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- Paul
Blom
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