Advantages: great story Disadvantages: Meryl Streep's performance
...I saw the poster of Julie and Julia. I saw that Maryl Streep is staring the film so I wanted to watch it. I read several reviews on it but not seen until last week. Julie and Julia is a drama comedy written and directed by Nora Ephron. I decided that I won’t watch another film where the director and the screenplay writer is the same person but I couldn’t resist to Meryl Streep. She is such a brilliant actress and I really like her films, so I walked ... ...Mail. The classification of Julie and Julia is 12 years and over. The running time is 123 minutes. For more information on this film visit: http://www.julieandjulia.com/. This film is based on two true stories. Main Cast: --------------- Meryl Streep – Julia Child Amy Adams – Julie Powell Stanley Tucci – Paul Child (Julia’s husband) Chris Messina – Eric Powel (Julie’s husband) Plot: -------- The life of Julia Child and Julie Powell are presented ...
D_i_a_n_e 18.11.2009 ·Read full review
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Review of Julie And Julia
...the release of the film My Sister's Keeper and decided that I would give this a watch, all I knew was that it was based on a novel but really had no idea what the exact plot was about. However, had I known the plot I might have rethought this choice for the particular day I watched it as it did end up being rather intense and about nothing I had assumed it would be about. This film is based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name which I had at ... ...by fertilization of a medical kind rather than the old fashioned way to be a genetic match for her older sister Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). Kate is suffering from leukemia and this is badly affecting her the older she gets, from a young age Anna has been helping her sister pull through by giving her what she needs to be ok. However, Anna gets to the stage when she is told she will have to donate a kidney and decides to take a stand as she is sick of ...
Advantages: good acting, great plot Disadvantages: -
...was another boring night without the X Factor when I started looking to the many DVD's I had bought and was deciphering which I really felt in the mood for. I have been watching a lot of different genre's lately but classic British period drama seemed to be something I didn't mind watching. The film I had picked up was The Duchess, I wasn't sure if this was going to be good or going to bore me but there was only one way to find out. The Duchess is ... ...set in the end of the 18th century; it centres around the life of Georgiana Cavendish (Keira Knightley). At a very young age she was married to the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) who is not the most faithful of men and whom really wants a son and will not give up until he gets someone to continue on the family title. It shows us Georgiana's tragic tale of being married to someone that she does not love and has never truly experienced this feeling. ...
Advantages: Some very strong performances in a very personal film. Disadvantages: It may be too personal. The direction suffers from an excess of film school trickery.
...Writer-director Dito Montiel presents a very personal take on his own autobiographical memoir of the same name. He captures the essence of the rough neighbourhood he was brought up in; counterbalancing the sense of community with the tunnel-vision of its inhabitants. Astoria is shown as the kind of place that people are born, live and die in without ever striving to get out and see more of the world. This is what sets Dito apart from his contemporaries ... ...This gives the basis for a coming-of-age drama, which is unfortunately undermined by Montiel’s decision to have a second storyline about the adult Dito coming home to his family for the first time in years. It’s clear what trajectories the majority of the players are on without revisiting them in adulthood and it’s enough to know that Dito gets out into the big wide world. I think it would have been far more poignant without this historical aspect. ...
Advantages: Excellent performances and direction Disadvantages: Not in English language
Juliette Fontaine has just been released from prison after serving a fifteen-year sentence. Her younger sister Lea comes to take her to her own family home. Lea is married to Luc and they have two adopted Vietnamese daughters; Luc's father, who has suffered a stroke, also lives with them. How will Lea's family react to Juliette, who has to stay with them until she has a permanent job and can support herself? And how will Juliette cope with her return ... ...into contact with, who react in different ways to her crime? The nature of Juliette's crime is revealed gradually, but her reason for committing it is not evident until the end of the film. Suffice it to say that Juliette's parents denied her existence after she was sentenced, and they forbade Lea to write to or visit Juliette. Lea, however, never forgot her sister, and the bond between them forms the essence of the film. She trusts Juliette implicitly ...
