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Being Julia
Abstract: Is there any more elegant woman alive right now than Annette Bening?
If only we all could look like, walk like and laugh like Annette Bening, who to me is the sheer embodiment of classic woman-liness.
Make me the director of a movie she's in and I will give you a great one. Put Istvan Szabo in the director's chair with Anette Bening and you get sheer magic.
Pair her with the steely Jeremy Irons in a movie set in the lavish '30s and many people start screaming Oscar. Of course, she is up against stiff competition, but with the quality of the story, the support of her co-stars, I think that this time, it could really happen for her.
Go see this movie, it will make you forget your cares for a little while at least.
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Credit: sonyclassics.com
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Okay, so great, Being Julia gives us a female, middle aged heroine. And that’s nice and unusual. And so I know we’re supposed to like the movie just on principle. But film just didn’t do it for me. There were some good characters and often some good dialogue, but there was no one to root for.
No character who grabbed me and made me say “Yeah, you go girl (or guy)”. I suppose we were supposed to root for Julia (played by Anette Benning), but I found her to be quite annoying. She was just so silly and would giggle like a teenager because a man flirted with her. This wouldn’t have been so bad if she weren’t, by her obvious wit, such an intelligent character.
And so, as she begun an affair with a man half her age who lacked, as far as I could tell, anything interesting to say, I just could not appreciate why she was falling for him.
I’d say this movie is worth a rental for the setting, some good performances and dialogue, and for an admittedly rather brilliant little scheme that Julia puts over on her rival.
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