Being Julia (2004)
(Csodálatos Júlia)
Country: CAN/GB/HUN/US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: István Szabó
Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Shaun Evans, Rita Tushingham, Leigh Lawson
Synopsis:
In the theatrical world of 1930s London Julia Lambert and her impresario husband reign supreme. She salves her ageing ego via an affair with a young American but when the inevitable happens contrives to get her revenge and reassert her preeminence in a bravura first-night display of improvisatory bitchiness.
Review:
The aura of stiffness exuded by the supporting characters is matched by the unconvincing (because low-budget) evocation of the period and is only partly excused by the dominance of Bening's performance. However, there are moments of ensemble, or at least two-handedness, which touch the right note, a rousing climax and a central star turn which builds in complexity and makes itself at least worthy of comparison with All About Eve's corresponding performance by Davis, even if the film as a whole cannot aspire so far.
(Csodálatos Júlia)
Country: CAN/GB/HUN/US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: István Szabó
Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Shaun Evans, Rita Tushingham, Leigh Lawson
Synopsis:
In the theatrical world of 1930s London Julia Lambert and her impresario husband reign supreme. She salves her ageing ego via an affair with a young American but when the inevitable happens contrives to get her revenge and reassert her preeminence in a bravura first-night display of improvisatory bitchiness.
Review:
The aura of stiffness exuded by the supporting characters is matched by the unconvincing (because low-budget) evocation of the period and is only partly excused by the dominance of Bening's performance. However, there are moments of ensemble, or at least two-handedness, which touch the right note, a rousing climax and a central star turn which builds in complexity and makes itself at least worthy of comparison with All About Eve's corresponding performance by Davis, even if the film as a whole cannot aspire so far.
(Csodálatos Júlia)
Country: CAN/GB/HUN/US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: István Szabó
Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Shaun Evans, Rita Tushingham, Leigh Lawson
Synopsis:
In the theatrical world of 1930s London Julia Lambert and her impresario husband reign supreme. She salves her ageing ego via an affair with a young American but when the inevitable happens contrives to get her revenge and reassert her preeminence in a bravura first-night display of improvisatory bitchiness.
Review:
The aura of stiffness exuded by the supporting characters is matched by the unconvincing (because low-budget) evocation of the period and is only partly excused by the dominance of Bening's performance. However, there are moments of ensemble, or at least two-handedness, which touch the right note, a rousing climax and a central star turn which builds in complexity and makes itself at least worthy of comparison with All About Eve's corresponding performance by Davis, even if the film as a whole cannot aspire so far.