A completely unfairy tale I wanted to see this film, primarily because it plays one of my favorite actresses Meryl Streep, and besides for this role she was nominated for an Oscar. I was not interested in the film anymore.
The film tells the story of Julie Powell, a secretary who spends a year trying to cook 524 dishes according to the recipes described in Julia Child’s book “How to master the art of French cuisine”. All her victories and defeats on the culinary front, the girl described in a blog.
The film is clearly made for housewives. Everything here is done for this purpose. Well, for cooks who like it more, because housewives are different. There are those who do nothing, and lie on the couch all day, buried in TV shows and eating candy. And there are those who spin like a squirrel in a wheel. They do not have a moment of rest: they cook, clean, clean, go shopping, in general, do heavy physical and sometimes mental labor. Here is this film as happy for the second type, although it can be liked by literally any audience, because ... It was shot in a very light way. Meryl Streep does a lot of it, but more on that later. It's just that everything here looks very interesting, you could even say delicious, like the dishes that Julie and Julia cook. Of course, there are failures in the form of spoiled dishes or individual ingredients, just as in the film. But behind all this ease there is literally nothing.
At once I must say that the film is completely unrelated. It looks like, for example, the movies “Paris, I Love You!” or “Coffee and Cigarettes”. Only there it is already clear in advance that they are novelized films, then it is completely unclear why they did it. It shows two storylines of Julie Powell and Julia Child, united by one theme - cooking. The film jumps from one time action to another, but they are clearly not related. It feels like we’re seeing two completely different movies. Magnificent film floor with Meryl Streep, and the film floor below average with Amy Adams. How can I argue that? First of all, Meryl Streep plays there. Just an amazing actress, without any modesty. Plays a lot of fun, atmospheric, though not very good that she stands out from the rest of his shattering character, but it's all nonsense. Deserved Golden Globe winner for Best Actress Comedy, and Oscar nomination, in which she lost to Sandra Bullock. Secondly, it is very atmospheric without it. France in the 40s and 50s looks magical. Well, the plot is much better. The second part is faded, and from comedy turns into some empty household, which is completely unremarkable. Absolutely unnecessary places internal conflicts that give only irritation to the film.
In general, if they made an hour-long film with one Meryl Streep, I would be in favor, but it so happened that the film lasts two hours, and the second half can only dream in a terrible dream, which any of us never want to see. I think of this film as an average product. But Meryl Streep I say Bravo!Original