Being Julia
- Annette Bening: Julia Lambert
- Jeremy Irons: Michael Gosselyn
- Lucy Punch: Avice Crichton
- Tom Sturridge: Roger Gosselyn
- Rosemary Harris: Mrs. Lambert
- Miriam Margolyes: Dolly de Vries
- Shaun Evans: Tom Fennel
- Juliet Stevenson: Evie
- Sheila McCarthy: Grace Dexter
- Maury Chaykin: Walter Gibbs
- Bruce Greenwood: Lord Charles
- Michael Gambon: Jimmie Langton
- Leigh Lawson: Archie Dexter
- Rita Tushingham: Aunt Carrie
- Julian Richings: Mr. Turnbull
Being Julia is a Canadian- American -Hungarian- British film comedy of 2004 after the Roman Theater ( Theatre ) by William Somerset Maugham. Directed by István Szabó. Annette Bening for her role was an actress who tries to compensate for the failure of their marriage by plunging into a relationship with a younger man, nominated for Best Actress Oscar. The novel was filmed in 1962 with Lilli Palmer in the lead role.
Action
London's West End late thirties of the 20th century. Julia Lambert is a Your old, but still celebrated actress in the theater of her husband Michael. The external facade of an intact marriage is beginning to crumble. In addition, Julia feels drained and unattractive and needs a break. Just in time endeavored Tom Fennel, an admirer of Julia's, stormy around them, and it comes to a violent affair. Eventually, however, she realizes that Tom only exploits. He wants namely accommodate about Julia his young girlfriend Avice as young actress in the theater.
Julia then takes revenge on both by seemingly embarking on their plan. It provides first subtle that Avice receives the second lead role in her piece. Meanwhile Avice has begun an affair with Julia's husband. Shortly before the premiere, he offers her a long term contract it also takes.
In the premiere Julia ensures that the inexperienced Avice makes a fool in front of the audience, so they do not stick to the stage directions, often interrupts the text of Avice and assumes even parts of their text. Avice now have to improvise and looks very bad, while Julia sovereign rescues the piece on its own and therefore has a huge success with the public.
Reviews
- The lexicon of international film certified the film " Tempo" and " ease " but mentioned " dramatic inconsistencies ."
- Cinema described the film as " lightweight" and wrote that the " actress deserves the Academy Award nomination in good faith " would have.
Awards (selection)
- 2004 Best Actress - NBR Award from the National Board of Review.
- Benning was for her performance with a Golden Globe Award (2005) in the category Best Actress - Musical or Comedy award.
- The Satellite Awards 2005 Benning won Best Actress and Jeremy Irons was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
- At the European Film Awards, there were nominations for Best Cinematography guide ( 2004) for the cameraman, Lajos Koltai and in the category Jameson Audience Award - Best Director (2005) for director István Szabó.
- Benning was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2005 as Best Actress.
- 2005, the film received two nominations at the Genie Awards, namely Bruce Greenwood as Best Supporting Actor, and Robert Lantos for Best Film.
- When Goya 2005 István Szabó was nominated for Best European film.
Background
The German reference title is all love Julia.
The film was shot on June 16, 2003 in Budapest, England, Jersey, Kecskemét and London. The budget was approximately 18 million U.S. dollars.