{"id":5253,"date":"2009-10-02T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T00:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2009-10-02T19:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T03:10:48","slug":"julie-and-julia-nora-ephron-2009-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5253","title":{"rendered":"Julie and Julia (Nora Ephron, 2009): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at the Fairview Twin.<\/p>\n

\"Julie<\/p>\n

What happens when you saute and slow cook\u00a0cubed beef\u00a0with bouillon?\u00a0 It eventually becomes beef stew.\u00a0 When you add 3 cups of red wine and follow Julia Child’s recipe, it deliciously becomes Boeuf Bourguignon!<\/p>\n

In 2002 Julie Powell committed 1 year of her life to try all 524 recipes from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking cookbook (published in 1961).\u00a0 Julie was a frustrated writer but a huge fan of Julia Child\u00a0when she began her endeavor; she used the power of the internet and a personal blog as a means for artistic release, and also to document her culinary journey.\u00a0 In 2005 Julie’s memoirs of this event was then published\u00a0under the title Julie and Julia:\u00a0 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.<\/p>\n

Nora Ephron took Julie Powell’s memoirs and merged them with Julia Child’s autobiography My Life in France, and thus created the plot for\u00a0Julie & Julia<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em>Julie & Julia begins with a flashback of \u00a0Julia Child (Meryl Streep)\u00a0in France with her husband Paul Child\u00a0(Stanley Tucci).\u00a0 She has a lot of free time and very little to do.\u00a0 Julia first\u00a0sets about attending cooking classes geared for G.I.’s,\u00a0 she then becomes acquainted with 2 French women working on a cookbook, and eventually\u00a0all 3 become cohorts in creating a French\u00a0cookbook designed with simplicity in mind\u00a0for\u00a0American wives.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously Julie Powell (Amy Adams), in the present, is attempting the recipes and reporting the outcome on her blog.\u00a0 As the blog gains in popularity Julie Powell’s story becomes newsworthy, and her ego expands as her marriage is jeopardized.<\/p>\n

Ephron, best known for Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You’ve Got Mail (1998), took great liberties\u00a0in writing, as\u00a0the dialogue\u00a0coupled with Streep’s over-the-top voice and character interpretation made Julia appear as though she were an airhead at times.\u00a0 The Julia Child that I grew up watching and ended up serving many years later at a local country club always appeared intelligent and unpretentious.<\/p>\n

That being said, Julie & Julia is a really good romantic comedy, and a lot of fun to watch.\u00a0 Meryl Streep really has improved with age – she has lost the self-consciousness in her acting, which never attracted me before.\u00a0 I believe she will be nominated for her role as Julia Child, and deservedly so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at the Fairview Twin. What happens when you saute and slow cook\u00a0cubed beef\u00a0with bouillon?\u00a0 It eventually becomes beef stew.\u00a0 When you add 3 cups of red wine and follow Julia Child’s recipe, it deliciously becomes Boeuf Bourguignon! In 2002 Julie Powell committed 1 year of her life to try all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}