Julia (2008)
Country: FR/US/MEX/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 144m
Director: Erick Zonca
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Bruno Bichir
Synopsis:
An alcoholic kidnaps the son of a fellow AA attender in order to extort money from the child's millionaire grandfather.
Review:
Shot entirely from the perspective of Swinton's enraged egotist of a central character, this gruelling drama puts the viewer through a succession of beyond-the-pale moments in which the jaw gapes at her capacity for irrational behaviour. In spite of yourself you side with this woman, because you have no one else; even the hapless mother is dropped like a narrative loose end once she has been denied help by Julia. Ultimately she is forced to accept the superior value of this life of which she has taken custody, though it is a close call, and by then most viewers will be shaking their heads at the protracted nature of so uncertain an epiphany.
Country: FR/US/MEX/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 144m
Director: Erick Zonca
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Bruno Bichir
Synopsis:
An alcoholic kidnaps the son of a fellow AA attender in order to extort money from the child's millionaire grandfather.
Review:
Shot entirely from the perspective of Swinton's enraged egotist of a central character, this gruelling drama puts the viewer through a succession of beyond-the-pale moments in which the jaw gapes at her capacity for irrational behaviour. In spite of yourself you side with this woman, because you have no one else; even the hapless mother is dropped like a narrative loose end once she has been denied help by Julia. Ultimately she is forced to accept the superior value of this life of which she has taken custody, though it is a close call, and by then most viewers will be shaking their heads at the protracted nature of so uncertain an epiphany.
Country: FR/US/MEX/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 144m
Director: Erick Zonca
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Bruno Bichir
Synopsis:
An alcoholic kidnaps the son of a fellow AA attender in order to extort money from the child's millionaire grandfather.
Review:
Shot entirely from the perspective of Swinton's enraged egotist of a central character, this gruelling drama puts the viewer through a succession of beyond-the-pale moments in which the jaw gapes at her capacity for irrational behaviour. In spite of yourself you side with this woman, because you have no one else; even the hapless mother is dropped like a narrative loose end once she has been denied help by Julia. Ultimately she is forced to accept the superior value of this life of which she has taken custody, though it is a close call, and by then most viewers will be shaking their heads at the protracted nature of so uncertain an epiphany.