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Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton gives an utterly compelling performance as a woman on the edge playing a dangerous game in this tense and riveting thriller. Fired from her job, broke and with her judgement clouded by too many vodka shots, Julia hits rock bottom and hatches a reckless plan to kidnap the 8 year-old grandson of a wealthy businessman and hold the boy to ransom. But she finds herself totally unprepared for life as a fugitive with a terrified child in tow, and events soon spiral wildly out of control. With both the authorities and a brutal criminal gang on her tail, a desperate Julia finds herself locked in a deadly fight for survival. Special Features: Interview with Tilda Swinton
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Loved this film. Tilda plays a great drunk and gets in over her head with her antics but proves rather clever too. I found this quite funny at times,not sure if this was intentional or not. Quite a long film but her acting is great and worth watching.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The only reason I can't give this 5 stars is the ending. Right up until that moment it's just great. (You have to get it now to see what I mean, don't you?)
Tilda Swinton is great as the delusional drunk who loathes AA and can't see a future without booze. The story shifts when she takes the ravings of another drunk seriously and puts a crazy plan into action. What makes the movie work, when it does work, is the way it stays close to reality.
Tilda Swinton is great as the delusional drunk who loathes AA and can't see a future without booze. The story shifts when she takes the ravings of another drunk seriously and puts a crazy plan into action. What makes the movie work, when it does work, is the way it stays close to reality.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Julia has an unconventional anti-hero in the shape of a drunken, aging, slapper. She'd be a `grenade' but that would require her to have some mates. We're introduced to her with a day-in-the-life passage of her getting paralytic at a party, shouting obnoxiously, making a nuisance of herself and then taking the least judgmental man home with her, washing off the stench of failure from the morning after, getting sacked.
After being forced to attending an AA meeting she becomes aware of the existence of a crack-pot nearby neighbour. Only then does the movie becomes an awesome seat of your pants, on the fly, ransom / kidnapping story.
'Julia' takes an unsavoury character and had me rooting for her by the end, even when she manages to blow half of her opportunities to pieces. Everyday traits, like spinning off ludicrous yarns to get what she wants, now work for her. In the face of immediate danger the distortion of truth remains the only way for her to regain control of the boy.
I thought the finish was coming up at the 100 minute mark, but then it pulled the rug out for underneath me and went on for another 40 minutes and I couldn't be happier! Usually continuing past the expected point of expected climax is the death kneel for a film, but Julia got me so invested in the character on screen that I wanted it to keep going and going. When the credits finally did roll I was disappointed, just because I thought the film had some gas left.
Tilda Swinton puts on a one-woman show (Ala De Niro in Taxi Driver) as she's literally in every scene, so if you dislike her, avoid, otherwise, enjoy the ride.
After being forced to attending an AA meeting she becomes aware of the existence of a crack-pot nearby neighbour. Only then does the movie becomes an awesome seat of your pants, on the fly, ransom / kidnapping story.
'Julia' takes an unsavoury character and had me rooting for her by the end, even when she manages to blow half of her opportunities to pieces. Everyday traits, like spinning off ludicrous yarns to get what she wants, now work for her. In the face of immediate danger the distortion of truth remains the only way for her to regain control of the boy.
I thought the finish was coming up at the 100 minute mark, but then it pulled the rug out for underneath me and went on for another 40 minutes and I couldn't be happier! Usually continuing past the expected point of expected climax is the death kneel for a film, but Julia got me so invested in the character on screen that I wanted it to keep going and going. When the credits finally did roll I was disappointed, just because I thought the film had some gas left.
Tilda Swinton puts on a one-woman show (Ala De Niro in Taxi Driver) as she's literally in every scene, so if you dislike her, avoid, otherwise, enjoy the ride.
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excellent
I saw this film on the telivision last year and have spent ages tracking it down,glad I found it well worth the search . It is an excellent movie. the acting is brilliant. Read more
Published 5 months ago by seeker
tilda swinton on a bender
Probably not supposed to be funny, but it is anyway. The ending might not satisfy people who prefer resolutions, but after two hours and twenty minutes I didn't feel like I'd been... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Glovely
First class, tense, great ending
Really good movie this; brilliantly acted lead role captures the obsessive alchoholic personality really well, great pacing, tense, some very funny moments. Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2009 by Vicky Martin
julia
the most terrible film i have ever watched. looks like it was made on a budget of £2.50
Published on 31 May 2009 by Ms. K. J. Ralphson
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