Miss Julie
Love is a foolish game
Love is a foolish game
Drama, Romance
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2014
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Over the course of a midsummer night in 1890s Ireland, the unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
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Details
Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
130 min
Release date:
7 Sep 2014
Country:
FR, IE, NO, GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$5,500,000
Revenue:
$5,000,000
Awards:
1 win & 7 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The film is visually bland, with only a couple of bookending outdoor sequences around a handful of interior sets.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
12 Mar 2015
rotten:
It smoulders and smokes and generates some heat but it never really bursts into flame.
– Richard Ouzounian,
Toronto Star,
12 Mar 2015
fresh:
Morton, one of the least artificial actresses in the world, charts her character's heartbreak without any of the self-pity normally assigned to ordinary women.
– Joe McGovern,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Dec 2014
fresh:
What Ullmann's done is create the ideal conditions for these three to do electrifying work with each other. She maintains control so they can lose it.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
11 Dec 2014
rotten:
The heat that should saturate the film as betrayals mount and boundaries are broken flickers and dies many times over "Miss Julie's" languid two-plus hours.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec 2014