In this movie, Julia is perfect because she's a mythical figure. I wonder if there is enough footage there to cobble together an only-Julia Director's Cut version (I doubt it, but it would be nice). The scenes of France and Paris in the late '40s onwards are gorgeous, and the acting of Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and everyone else in the Julia segments are just wonderful.
JULIE AND JULIA MOVIE
Like most people who have written about this movie, I did yearn for more Julia, a whole movie about Julia. Parallels are drawn between the lives of the two women, to be sure, but I think they are there to give weight and credence to Julie's experience.
The Julia parts are there to enlighten us about this legendary Julia figure, and why someone would give up a year of her life, more or less, to immersing herself in the Cult of Julia. I think that this really is a movie about Julie, not Julia. Perhaps because I viewed the movie in a place where Julia Child is not a culinary diety and pop-culture icon, I was able to watch the movie in a different way I think than most Americans. As it happens, the theatre (one of the smaller ones at the multiplex) was about 80% full, and as far as I could eavesdrop on, mostly by French people, not expats like me. I was even wondering if anyone else besides us would be there for the show. Julia Child may be credited with introducing fine French cooking techniques to American housewives, but she is not a household name in the country that inspired her by any means, even if she did receive a Legion d'Honneur from the French government. I pondered these things as made our way to a movie theater in Lyon, France, for a pre-premiere, or sneak preview (the movie officially opens here in France on the 16th). In fact, as Anna Picard wrote on The Guardian's World of Mouth blog, internet savvy non-USens are more likely to know about Julie Powell, Famous Blogger Who Became Bestselling Author, rather than Julia Child, an odd-looking woman who had some cooking gig on the telly years ago. I thought I would put in both descriptions here, since contrary to what American may think, Julia Child is not universally known.
JULIE AND JULIA TV
My Life In France is the autobiography of Julia Child, a legendary American cookbook author and TV chef. Julia and Julia is a blog-turned-into-book that recounts how Julie Powell, an office cubicle worker who hates her job and is having an identity crisis, cooks her way through Julia Child's first masterpiece Mastering The Art Of French Cooking (Volume 1) as a project to bring meaning to her life.
Last night I finally got to see Julie and Julia, the much-talked-about movie based on the books Julia and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously and My Life In France.
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