Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
bkoganbing
Annette Bening plays a Margo Channing like star of the British stage in Being Julia. Unlike Margo Channing who decided in the end she was tired of it all and wanted to settle down, Bening decides she's in one terrible rut and needs some battery recharging.The batteries get recharged with a handsome young American played by Shaun Evans. He's a stage door johnny and waits like Eve Harrington for a chance to meet his acting idol. She's long ceased having sex with her husband actor/producer Jeremy Irons. She responds to his innocent charm and the two of them are going hot and heavy.But Evans is quite the charmer and he's working an agenda big time. Part of it includes another woman he's hitting the hayloft with Lucy Punch. She too is an actress and Evans wants to get her a part in the next play that Irons produces and Annette stars in.It's all so terribly British even with American Bening in the lead. It reminds me so much of that famous cruise that the Prince of Wales took with Wallis Simpson and her husband in the Mediterranean where everyone brought their spouses and significant other mistresses and boyfriends. Being Julia is set in that time period and the sets and costumes reflect it well. By all means do your thing, but be discreet and don't let the tabloid press of Beaverbook and Rothermere get a hold of it.Poor Jeremy Irons. You think he's being played in all this, but believe he's working an agenda too.Annette Bening got one of her four Best Actress nominations, but she was beaten out by Hilary Swank who gave a once in a lifetime performance in Million Dollar Baby. Still Bening's accolades were well deserved.A little bit of All About Eve and a little but of the Rob Lowe/Andrew McCarthy brat pack film Class is the best way to describe Being Julia. But it's in a class by itself.
SnoopyStyle
It's London 1938. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a successful stage actress but she wants a break. Tom Fennel is a young American fan. His devotion turns the diva onto a gitty affair. Soon, he's flirting with younger actress Avice Crichton (Lucy Punch).This is all about Bening. It's her show. Tom Sturridge doesn't exactly shine. The movie needs him to be a big star actor but he's much too bland. He's a real dud. On the other hand, Lucy Punch is fun and a funny foil. It does seem that this wouldn't be anything without Bening. She almost wills this into something good from lesser material. There are plenty of great actors around but it's Bening's movie from start to finish.
Bob An
I had a smile on my face after the film! What a twist at the end - thought it was obvious that Julia was up to something!I liked the feel of the 20's or 30's in the movie. The language of Julia and people around her was very 'scenic' and I liked that! I think that the cast for all roles is really good. My only complaint would be 'her conscious' or 'her mentor' whom she imagines or she talks to him in her head... He was kinda out of place - I mean, that kind of 'angel' is OK for fairy tales, not musical dramas or whatever this film is.Anyway, it is entertaining all the way. I though I would give it a seven, but, in the end, just because I smiled most of the film - eight from me
dy158
Adapted from the novel 'Theatre', it is about the life of legendary West End actress Julia Lambert (Annette Benning). It's the 30s London, and Julia is getting on in years. But yet her name within the West End circles is indisputable.Jimmie Langton (Michael Gambon) is the ghostly mentor by Julia's side, Michael Gosselyn (Jeremy Irons) is her husband, theatre owner Dolly (Miriam Margolyes) has quite a joyful personality, American Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans) has always been a fan of Julia's acting and it's the meeting with his idol Julia that a May-December affair began.But soon later, Julia found out that Tom is using her to get close to an upcoming star Avice (Lucy Punch) and Julia soon plotted her way to revenge on the man who had finally given her a whole new lease of life.As the saying goes - 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned', Julia really lives up to that manner. She uses her name to get even with the young starlet in a new production she is in with her young co-star.The way how Annette Benning acted in the movie really shows how much a famous theatre actress will go to get her way back. Smashing.
