Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia is a 2009 comedy film released by Nora Ephron, who also wrote the screenplay based on a book by Julie Powell. The film focuses on the beginnings of the cooking career of Julia Child against the ambitious endeavor of Julie Powell, nachzukochen all 524 recipes from Child's cookbook in one year. But the real dream for both was to be a writer.

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Julia Child comes with her husband Paul, the American ambassador, to Paris in 1949 where she first tried, more out of boredom than milliner. Then she learned in a cooking school cooking and baking and is the partner of Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle working on a cookbook of French cuisine for Americans for some time. The three of them lead a cooking school. The cookbook is rejected with the publishers and so ask Beck and Bert Holle Julia to revise her book. It was followed by many parades for Julia, who accompanied her husband to the varied lands. The cookbook, which she adds many new sections, is taking on ever greater dimensions and scares at a length of about 700 pages, numerous publishers from. A lecturer finally takes time for the manuscript, cooks Recipes by and is enthusiastic, so Julia eight years after the start of their work can keep the printed book in my hands at last.

In parallel, the story of Julie is told. It is in 2002, almost 30, married, just has announced a move from Brooklyn to Queens behind and cared for in the public sector in an open plan office on the phone people are still suffering from the consequences of September 11. Actually she wanted to be a writer, but never managed more than half a novel. Her passion is cooking and as one of her friends starts a blog about her everyday life, she decides for himself to write about cooking. Their plan: all 524 recipes from Julia Childs cookbook within a year try at home and report on the blog about it. More and more people read your blog and are thrilled the press is beginning to report. Her husband Eric is the whole thing at some point too much, and that Julie behaves increasingly self-centered. He leaves in the dispute, but soon returns again. At the end learns Julie, who has stylized in their imagination Julia to a perfect wife that this was not very enthusiastic about her blog and feel the approach to their work rather than disrespectful. Julie is first devastated, but then relies on her picture she has taken of Julia, she brings her experiment as planned eventually to an end. Many publishers have signed on to make her experience a book. Finally, Julie visited the museum, which is dedicated to Julia, and leaves behind a pack of butter, which yes is the main ingredient for all dishes according to Julia's opinion.

Development and production

Ephron's screenplay is based on two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, which she wrote with Alex Prud'homme, and the memoir by Julie Powell. Powell began to document their daily cooking experiments in a blog. She described it as nachkochte all 524 recipes in Child's book Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Later, they revised the blog. "The Julie / Julia Project" was published in a book Julie & Julia. 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen ( Little, Brown, New York 2005). The German -language paperback edition in 2006 under the title of Julie & Julia: published 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny kitchen. The two books were adapted by Ephron, were written and published between 2004 and 2006. The movie was the first, which is based on a blog.

Ephron began in March 2008 with the production of Julie & Julia. Meryl Streep portrayed in the movie Julia Child and Amy Adams presented Julie Powell dar.

Publication

The official movie premiere took place on 30 July 2009 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. In the U.S. theaters the movie was released on August 7, 2009 theatrical release in Germany was on September 3, 2009.

Awards

Actress Meryl Streep was awarded in 2010 for her role including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy / Musical, she was also nominated for an Oscar.

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