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Julia

Jane Fonda (Actor), Vanessa Redgrave (Actor), Fred Zinnemann (Director) Rated:
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4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
IMDb7.1/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Contributor Susan Jones, Meryl Streep, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Dora Doll, Fred Zinnemann, Hal Holbrook, Lillian Hellman, Alvin Sargent, Jane Fonda, Elisabeth Mortensen, John Glover, Lisa Pelikan, Vanessa Redgrave, Rosemary Murphy See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 57 minutes
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Playwright Lillian Hellman recalls World War II, her best friend and writer Dashiell Hammett. Best supporting Oscars for Redgrave and Jason Robards.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ Relay Time: 118 min
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Fred Zinnemann
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 57 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 7, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007ZEOPK
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Alvin Sargent, Lillian Hellman
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 356 ratings

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Kathy
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Movie !!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
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JULIA !!!!!! Is My Favorite, Favorite Movie. When I First Saw This Movie I Just Couldn't Stop Thinking About It. Now, I Can See It Anytime !!!! Love, Love This Movie !!!! That's All Can Say !!!! Thank You !!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Julia,directed by Fred Zinneman
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This movie is one of my top ten.This edition is the only in the world with english subtitles.The quality of video is excellent. Thanks.

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Francis Booth Lynch
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance On Display!
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018
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Movie 4 of 1977 and 45 overall in my journey through films of my lifetime.

This was exactly what I was hoping for when I began this retrospective. I wanted an amazing story told in an amazing way. Something to make me think, a puzzle to contemplate. From the opening scene to the beautiful final frame I was enthralled. While "Farewell My Lovely" was great I gave it five stars because I felt it accomplished its noble goals. "Julia" was just objectively fantastic. My top two favorite movies of all time are "Memento" directed by Christopher Nolan and "Mulholland Drive" directed by David Lynch. I rob those movies of nothing mentioning "Julia" in the same breath.
The skill of this director is unmatched by many I have seen. It was the first of his for me and I hope it won't be my last. A good example of his abilities, other than the amazing use of the camera to show me the story, comes in the train scenes. Constant droning, like the tracks, the steam that sounded like everything could go wrong at any time, the close ups, the silencing of the music which was ubiquitous to that point. All of this came together to put me on that train but more importantly to feel the paranoia.
Jane Fonda was stellar! She needed few words to convey emotion. Today female leads are usually there to appeal to the feminist and alienate males. I could completely relate to Lillian as Fonda tapped universal emotions that anyone could relate to. I'm no feminist and I don't believe "Julia" is a feminist film. Effeminate strength, which I am well equanted with having grown up with a strong grandmother and two aunts, was on display and I was so glad to see someone be female and show strength without having to imitate a male.
There was indeed a pro socialist slant. Hagel, Marks, and the proletarian dream in Vienna, that is to say the time and place for the arts, was all there as part of Julia's education. We see her struggle with the Fascist wave in France. In a flashback we see Lillian was into the glamor and the jet setting. Julia had to scold her for "not listening" which really meant "you don't care" like a good old activist presenting her credentials for moral superiority. An interesting aside: the problem with Fascists was that they were at the seat of power. Interesting that the problem with communists/socialists was when they were at the seat of power. Look at ANTIFA today (anti-fascists like Julia in ideology not actions) their solution: silence opposition with violence. The problem is more that of anthropology than idiology. Humanity seems to be the issue more so than how it is governed by the few. So susceptible to corruption. More on Julia later but I'll just say that her bent toward idiology made the movie intellectually stimulating and was never used to try to persuade the audience to embrace her views.
The Music was pitch perfect! If you have followed this retrospective you understand how important that is to me.
This movie will never be remade as no one in Hollywood today smart enough to make anything like this.
Later we discover that Julia is a force for good against the Nazis. In some sense we are to see that her socialist training prepared her for this. She is smart enough to be morally good as a socialist (after all she understood Einstein and was going to work for Sigmund Freud!) that we can trust her instincts. In truth education has hardly been the cause of good moral behavior. Ironically the Nazis were comprised of some of the most educated the world had ever seen to this point and today it's not hard to find a campus ethicist that couldn't justify almost any axiological supposition. It's important to note though that this merely betrays the assumptions of the movie's creator's unlike today where one is expected to go through rigorous indoctrination as one watches a movie. Don't believe me? Watch "The Deep End" or "Contact" as an example. You'll see. In the end it is edifying to the audience to see their intelligence respected this way.
"Julia" is not a perfect movie. There were obvious camera work flaws as well as anachronisms that are apparent on first viewing along with some editing stumbles.
I felt that the friendship between Julia and Lillian was a little forced and never had the emotional impact the film wanted me to feel.
Despite its flaws I will say that I was impressed. I will show respect for the film by offering no pro/con list. I fleshed out all points in the film that I wanted to make. I'm just thrilled I found such a wonderful movie!
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4.0 out of 5 stars "But I trust absolutely what I remember about Julia"
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2011
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In the autumn of 1977, after a severe lack in the last few years of strong, complex women's roles in films several promising movies were slated to open where the female(s) would be front and center. These included Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in "The Turning Point", Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek in "3 Women", Marsha Mason in "The Goodbye Girl" and Diane Keaton in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar". However probably the most eagerly anticipated of them all was Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave in "Julia". Not only was this to be Fonda's comeback Hollywood film, after her self-imposed exile and political blacklisting, but also there was avid curiosity to see these two notorious political firebrands playing radical women of the 1930's. People wanted to see if art would mirror life.

As the film opens, it's early morning and there is a solitary figure sitting in a rowboat fishing on a mist-shrouded lake. She is Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda), the renowned playwright and author, now an aging woman. Her thoughts are expressed in an inner monologue as she revisits her life as a young woman and remembers the two strongest influences in molding and developing her character. They are her lover and literary mentor for many years, the esteemed writer Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards), and her best friend from childhood, the beautiful, passionate, socially committed Julia (Vanessa Redgrave). The majority of the film is set in the early to late 1930's where Lillian's two complicated relationships with Julia and Hammett are intertwined. Hammett and Lillian live together in a cottage on Long Island Sound as she tries to write her first play, and he serves as editor and critic. Blocked, Lillian decides to take a sabbatical in Europe, intending to visit Julia there who is studying for a medical degree in Vienna, living in a sector that has socialist and left wing activists striving to create positive political change. However Julia is brutally beaten and injured in a fascist riot, Lillian visits her twice in the hospital but then Julia is removed to an unknown destination for additional surgery and rehabilitation. An extremely frustrated and concerned Lillian is unable to make contact with her, and reluctantly returns home. She reworks her play, "The Children's Hour", it is a smash hit on Broadway and she is the toast of the town. In 1937, Lillian takes another trip to Europe and tries to visit with Julia. In the lobby of her Paris hotel Lillian is approached by a nondescript middle-aged stranger who identifies himself as Johann (Maximilian Schell). He is a friend of Julia's and gives Lillian a letter from her. In it, Julia asks a critical favor of Lillian to smuggle $50,000 into Nazi Germany for her to use to bribe Nazis to release Jews and other political prisoners. Lillian will need to take a train that will let her off in Berlin where she will exchange the money with a courier. Although Julia warns Lillian not to do it if she truly feels she can't, that there will be no dishonor, after some soul searching she decides to take on this dangerous mission.

Fonda is unqualifiedly marvelous as the legendary writer Lillian Hellman. She is like a tightly coiled spring, ready to snap, releasing an incendiary temper. Her body language is tense and contained, her guard continually up, and she seldom seems to relax fully except when she is with Julia. Yet, Fonda suggests the many currents channeled inside Hellman, the relentless drive to be the best, her fierce integrity and her honest, forthright character. Her Hellman is not always endearing, but she will earn your respect and ultimately admiration. She incorporates a quirky little gesture the real Hellman used, which is making the sign of the cross while saying "Oi veh!' which adds a nice touch of authenticity. In addition Fonda uses a cigarette for a prop better than any actress since Bette Davis, and looks very sleek and stylish most of the time. This performance earned her a third Best Actress Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe, a British Film Academy Award and sealed her Hollywood comeback.

As the title character Vanessa Redgrave doesn't come off quite as well. However, this is not her fault. Lillian Hellman's autobiography was entitled "An Unfinished Woman" and that exactly pinpoints the problem with the character of Julia both in Hellman's original "Pentimento" and Alvin Sargent's screenplay. Julia is an enigma, as ephemeral as a puff of smoke, too one sided and saintly, having no real flaws, and seems more like a symbol of nobility and justice rather than a flesh and blood woman. Redgrave is a luminous presence with a perfect American accent but really only has the opportunity to register strongly in her wordless scene in the hospital and especially in the meeting with Lillian in the Berlin café. This is hands down the best scene in the film and Fonda and she soar with it. These two scenes are what earned her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

The supporting cast is quite good, Jason Robards as the craggy, laconic Dashiell Hammett won his second Best Supporting Actor in a row. He and Fonda work much more fortuitously together than in their initial pairing eleven years earlier in the fluffy "Any Wednesday". Maximilian Schell in a cameo part as Johann makes such an impact that he was nominated as well for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. As the adolescent Julia and Lily, Lisa Pelikan and Susan Jones are well cast in terms of resemblance to Redgrave and Fonda. Rosemary Murphy (also an "Any Wednesday" alumna!) and Hal Holbrook are diverting as another noteworthy writer, Dorothy Parker and her husband Alan Campbell. Although I find Meryl Streep vastly overrated as an actress, for those that fancy her, she makes her film debut in a tiny part. Finally I do want to mention the veteran actress Cathleen Nesbitt who appears as Julia's grandmother, and clicks in her brief moments as a grande dame.

In his next to last film master director Fred Zinnemann displays his usual meticulous craftsmanship and sensitivity. The script by Alvin Sargent is for the most part a skillful, literate adaption of Hellman's story, and he won an Oscar for his efforts. Great care and taste were evidenced in putting this film together, it's handsome, elegant, with a classic style as evidenced in the production design by Gene Callahan, Carmen Dillon and Willy Holt, and the costume design by Anthea Sylbert. The cinematography by Douglas Slocombe with exteriors in Oxford and Paris is outstanding as is the original musical score by George Delerue.

Critically lauded for the most part, "Julia" performed quite well at the box office and was nominated for 11 Academy Awards including besides those mentioned above, nominations for Best Picture and Director. Now many years later it seems to have slipped somewhat out of favor, the only extra besides the subtitle options are its original trailer. Too bad Fonda and Redgrave didn't do a commentary; their insights into the film would have been interesting. Perhaps a possible reason might be when it was released "Julia" was advertised with the byline "Based on a true story". However now there is a high degree of skepticism of it's authenticity, despite Lillian Hellman' insistence that it all actually occurred as written. More probably, on some strong evidence that has been presented the chapter of "Julia" in her book "Pentimento" was most likely fiction based on a real life counterpart Muriel Gardiner, an American heiress working for the Austrian resistance during the initial Nazi occupation before the outbreak of World War II. Although they never met Hellman and she shared the same lawyer, and it is thought he told Hellman Gardiner's story, which had many parallels to Julia's. Regardless, it is worth a viewing for what may be the only chance to see two of the finest film actresses of their generation act together, plus see the final film success of renowned director Fred Zinnemann.
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Kha
5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting story told with great acting
Reviewed in Canada on November 6, 2021
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I have loved this movie forever. I lost my previous copy, and I am thrilled that I now have an excellent replacement copy. Well packaged and quickly delivered!
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A. Felipe Gonzalez Barroso
4.0 out of 5 stars Excelente película.
Reviewed in Mexico on April 23, 2018
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No le doy 5 estrellas porque no es Blu-ray, ya que la imagen no es en alta definición. La trama es soberbia al igual que las actuaciones en este clásico de los setenta.
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NorthCarolina
5.0 out of 5 stars Una de las mejores peliculas que he visto en mi vida
Reviewed in Spain on May 27, 2018
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Yo la vi en un cine de estreno de la gran via
Cine Avenida. Hoy dia ya no existe. Nunca me olvide de esta pelicula hasta que la busque en dvd en España ya que en algunos paises europeos ( alemania) no ha sido publicada. Es maravillosa.
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Cloclo21
5.0 out of 5 stars Qui est la traitresse de la guerre de 40 ?
Reviewed in France on October 6, 2013
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Jane Fonda vient des U.S pour rejoindre sa sœur en Europe, apparemment, elle a l'air d'avoir du sang juif. L'air est malsain pour elle, mais la guerre n'est pas encore déclarée !
Vanessa Redgrave reste un personnage très flou dans le cinéma, est-elle sympathisante nazi ou bien les combat-elle ? Rien n'affirme qu'elle soit d'un camp ou d'un autre.
En ce qui concerne Meryl Streep, elle ne compte vraiment pas pour elles !
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Hans-J. Schmidt
5.0 out of 5 stars Trotz Angaben im Angebot - nicht auf deutsch!!!
Reviewed in Germany on June 26, 2009
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Habe die gleichen Erfahrungen wie mein Vorrezesion gemacht. Mehrere erfolglose Bestellungen,
der Film ist sehr gut,
leider kein deutsch auf der DVD. Sie ist im Regionalcode 1 (USA) gebrannt. Es läßt sich allerdings fast jeder DVD Player auf den Regionalcode einstellen, entweder im Menü einstellbar, Gebrauchsanleitung oder noch besser googlen im Internet. Hier gibt es für jedes Gerät die Anleitung bzw. Einstelltips, dann klappt das abspielen, wenn auch nur in einer Fremdsprache.
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