Julie & Julia [Blu-ray] Overview
Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until th
Julie & Julia [Blu-ray] Specifications
Julie & Julia is a film that should be relished with gusto--accompanied by the freshest and best ingredients, pounds of butter, and bottles of the very best wine. It lovingly celebrates the life of one of American food's most influential and beloved figureheads: Julia Child--played here with zest, humor, and a sweet, subtle respect by Meryl Streep, whose performance is spectacular.
Julie & Julia is based on the book by Julie Powell, a frustrated New York bureaucrat who wants to be a writer. "But you're not a writer until someone publishes you," she moans. So she gives herself a challenge: to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year, and to blog about it. As Powell (played with chirpy determination by Amy Adams), begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own--and in the end it does provide the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise. But mostly, Julie & Julia is a valentine to Child, to Child's amazing love affair with her dashing husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci, as divine as any soufflé in the film), and to her outlook on embracing life, and ordering seconds. Streep throws herself into the Child role with real affection for her character, and while certain of Child's idiosyncrasies--including her warbly voice and unflappable haphazardness in the kitchen--are retained, it's Child's character and vision which form Streep's portrayal, and which make the film so involving and rewarding.
Nora Ephron directs with deftness and a light touch, though she seems at times to be encouraging some of Meg Ryan's onscreen tics in Adams (the self-conscious head tilt, for one). But mostly she simply allows Streep to channel Child and her love of food, her husband, and 1950s Paris. And that is a recipe for something truly sublime. --A.T. Hurley
Customer Reviews
I'll make a confession at the front - I like everything because Meryl Streep is one of the most underrated actresses in film history. Your genius has an uncanny ability to appear in a character so completely that you can not fail to see the person who is, rather than the actress. This is the sign of an incredibly talented person and Streep hits on all cylinders in Julie & Julia, as she wears Prada in the Devil.
For those of us who do not know how JuliaChild was named as a world-famous, the film gives the story of how her husband moved from city to city government as a disgruntled employee has given his time to pursue things that interest them. While she tried her hand to a number of topics during his stay in Paris, France, eventually came to realize that cooking was his true passion and started. From high-level training in a prestigious cooking school to be approached by a couple of flakesPotential authors of books about cooking on a cookbook with recipes from English to work in France, Julia would have been the dream - boil French, Americans, who do not have to cook for their employees. It 'been worn, what was one of the most important culinary figures of our time, whose effects are still felt.
Julie & Julia is the story of a used 9 / 11 government group named Julie, who was inspired to do something with their lives in 2002 when he gotset their sights on their way from Julia Child's cooking all 500 + recipes in one year - and blogging about it! As a writer, she felt compelled to everything with their readers (who are always with you ") to share their ups and downs during the journey from the kitchen this year. I could tell Julie character, because for a living and many things in this film have been discussed on a blog, blog absolutely true. Julie has her big breakthrough was when the New York Timesa history of large for his blog and when writers, publishers of books, television shows and much more contact with the opportunities that it has gone up a book and then began to be this great movie.
My wife and I liked this film (and we knew we) for our special date night and I recommend it to bloggers, gourmets, and those who are curious about the emergence of a true legend in the history of cuisine as Julia Child. Watch this film!
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