Julie & Julia

2009 "Based on Two True Stories."
7| 2h3m| PG-13| en
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Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

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Linkshoch Wonderful Movie
Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
andrewfleming-57891 Why its good: Enjoyable plot, watchable at any time, funny at parts, great music and Meryl Streep is great.However, there are some problems: The Julia plotline is a bit too weak to merit as much time as it does. There are one or two periods of very long narration by Julia which verges on annoying due to her over the top nature. Also, disappointing in the sense that the two characters never actually interact which leaves the film feeling more like two seperate films rather than one big work.
bietrice Really. It's a great cure for insomnia, I recommend.
TheLittleSongbird With talented actors such as Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci and Jane Lynch on board, plus Nora Ephron has been responsible for some lovely work, 'Julie & Julia' seemed a recipe made in heaven. Seeing it, it is truly delicious stuff.Do agree with those saying that the Julia Child portions are much more interesting than the Julie Powell ones. Not that the Julie Powell scenes are unwatchable, certainly not. There are amusing and sweet moments and succeeds just as much as the Julia Child story in making one want to grab a cook-book and start cooking or starting a blog. The film in general with both story lines compels one to want to cook, regardless of how good they are at it or not.Amy Adams also brings charm to Julie and an amusing angst and Chris Messina is likable support, though the character is underwritten somewhat. Their chemistry is nicely done.What lets it down however are silly scenes like with the dinner and 65 answer phone messages, pacing that lacked lustre in places and the shallow self-absorbed way Julie particularly is written.Luckily, the Julia Child portions have much more charm and are easier to relate to, with Julia's obstacles and determinations being easier to root for and Julia being a more endearing character. The scenes have so much warmth and makes one laugh in an uplifting fashion and cry in how delicately and sensitively the subject is portrayed.Meryl Streep gives yet another masterly performance, that's both hilarious and touching and much more than an impersonation even with the mannerisms, voice and such being spot on. She is not as tall as Child was, who was 6 foot 2 to Streep's 5 foot 6, but 'Julie & Julia' cleverly disguised that by basically casting shorter actors and actresses. Stanley Tucci is equally brilliant as her husband, one really believes that they are in love and Tucci charms the socks out of everybody. Jane Lynch is a welcome presence in a small role as Dorothy.The only problems with her story are that it occasionally sags in the middle and that the Republican/McCarthyism jibes did come over as mean-spirited and unnecessary.'Julie & Julia' is beautifully filmed, especially in the Julia story, which also has very evocative and handsomely rendered period detail that feels like late 40s-50s France. The music gives a good taste of the uplifting and the tragic, with brilliant use of "Time After Time". Am not a fan of the very overplayed "Prince of Denmark" march but tolerated it here.Nora Ephron's directing in the film's best parts is some of the best she ever did in my opinion and in the best parts the script is witty, inspiring, poignant and sharply observant with lots of warmth. Much of the story works really well, with the two stories and time lines intertwined with great skills and never is hard to follow or choppy.Overall, culinary deliciousness if at times uneven. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Vessiana Arty Writing a review of a movie like 'Julie and Julia'(2009) is difficult because there aren't many occurrences taking place - the plot is simple and common. It's based on the true stories of two cook - Julie Powel (Amy Adams) and Julia Child (Meril Streep) and I think the feature is interesting by reason of two things: the first is the fact that the success is a book/blog away and the second – the quality of the love between spouses in each of the couples. I have always believed in the good turns maybe because too many bad turns happen as well. Plane crashes, car incidents, people incidents, unexpected betrayals, sinister health diagnosis. And at once we have movies on true stories wherein the main heroes get return for the experienced misfortunes. When read articles on such movies I realized that the plots are often dissimilar than the real lives of the participants and sometimes they are striking changed. Reality is very relative notion and everyone gets it differently even when the persons are at the same place in the same time. Because of that it isn't easy the real events to be reflected, especially in a film. But after all I was very surprised when I heard about the real Julie Powell's marriage problems – a modern woman with ordinary job who makes a cooking blog and has the goal to cook a few hundreds meals for one year using the recipes of the famous chef Julia Child. The feature shows how Julie's husband supports her, also shows his unconditional and infinite love, a lot of good advice and generally he is represented as Mister Right. But it turns out that they both had extramarital relations during the period of their lives produced in the movie and also after that. I have read they are got together several times. This somehow spoiled the romantic impression this movie had left in me. Anyway, Julia is good at cooking, despite some nervous breakdowns, annoying girlfriends, her mother who always has the opposite opinion and the lack of comments on the time she started her blog. No matter what the reality was, she has published best-seller books, there is a movie based on the one of them and, I guess, more many successes I don't know about. What I disliked in the picture is the emphasizing on the love but maybe the authors have wanted to tell that without the support of somebody who loves us we wouldn't be able to represent ourselves before the world successfully. That applies to Julia Child and her husband Paul, too. The two stories of the both women with the same name take place in parallel. I know nothing about the private life of the great cook and have read only few recipes of her book 'Mastering the art of French cooking'. But I have realized her huge efforts to publish it in time of political instability. Of course, when I saw the photos of real Julia she didn't look so beautiful and charming as Meril Streep. Actually, it isn't necessity but thinking about the movie I first remember the actresses and then the real women. 'Julie and Julia' is a movie in which the daydreams come true and it provokes us to believe in our own dreams. The belief in the cinema is an absolutely different topic and it isn't a vital necessity. But the dreams are definitely.