Being Julia R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 22, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Annette Bening & Jeremy Irons | |
Performer: | Lucy Punch, Shaun Evans, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Maury Chaykin & Michael Gambon | |
Directed by | István Szabó | |
Screenwriting by | Ronald Harwood | |
Composition by | Mychael Danna | |
Produced by | Robert Lantos | |
Director of Photography: | Lajos Koltai |
Entertainment Reviews:
It is an expert performance from Bening, combining coquetry, lust, anger, sarcasm, vulnerability and hauteur...
Sight and Sound
[I]t has enough surprises to keep you guessing, and for Annette Bening it's the liveliest of comebacks.
Entertainment Weekly
Of the many gifts that Annette Bening brings to her best roles, the most endearing may be a sense of self-enjoyment....This quality shines through every one of her scenes in BEING JULIA.
Wall Street Journal
Bening and a lustrous ensemble cast have brought to vivid life W. Somerset Maugham's 1937 novella THEATRE....They have done so with such verve and panache that this film can never be described as merely a romp or a star vehicle.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: C --
Benning ... brings this constantly disguised vixen to ferocious, flamboyant life.
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Lessons of Darkness
I enjoyed watching Ms. Bening in close to top form, and I think you will, too.
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Observer
Rating: 3/5 --
At best this is a witty and insightful portrait of a woman searching for her true identity; however it's also aloof and inconsequential.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
As she enters her early 40s, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West End, but is growing too old for ingenue parts. When Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, comes into her life, a clandestine affair begins. Though she's happy for a while, Julia eventually winds up in a face-off with a Tom's other, much younger lover (Lucy Punch). Luckily, the spirit of Julia's cantankerous old acting coach (London theater legend Michael Gambon) follows Julia around offering some tough-love encouragement.
Set in the late 1930s, this is a fine costume comedy-drama about the sorrows and joys of art. The eternal question of "when am I acting and when am I myself'" has seldom been addressed as intelligently as it is here; Bening seems to be not only tangling with her own status as an aging beauty, but also with the limits of her own acting abilities, and it's a pleasure to see her transcend both with such triumphant exuberance. Bravo, Miss Bening, and kudos to director Szabó (MEPHISTO) for rendering his obvious love of theater, cinema, and actors with such contagious warmth. Other fine performances include Jeremy Irons as Julia's manager/husband and Juliet Stevens as her jaded maid.
Set in the late 1930s, this is a fine costume comedy-drama about the sorrows and joys of art. The eternal question of "when am I acting and when am I myself'" has seldom been addressed as intelligently as it is here; Bening seems to be not only tangling with her own status as an aging beauty, but also with the limits of her own acting abilities, and it's a pleasure to see her transcend both with such triumphant exuberance. Bravo, Miss Bening, and kudos to director Szabó (MEPHISTO) for rendering his obvious love of theater, cinema, and actors with such contagious warmth. Other fine performances include Jeremy Irons as Julia's manager/husband and Juliet Stevens as her jaded maid.
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