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Julia

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Original title

Julia

Year

1977

Running time

118 min.

Country

United States

Director

Fred Zinnemann

Screenwriter

Alvin Sargent. Autobiography: Lillian Hellman

Cast

Music

Georges Delerue

Cinematography

Douglas Slocombe

Producer

20th Century Fox

Genre

Drama | Based on a true story. 1930s. Friendship. Literature. Nazism

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Lillian Hellman Adaptations

Synopsis

The story of a friendship between two women and their anti-Nazi efforts during World War II. Though purportedly a true story about Lillian Hellman, her involvement was proved to be untrue by the actual Julia after the film came out. Still great. Streep's debut. Academy Award Nominations: 11, including Best Picture, Best Director. Academy Awards: Best (Adapted) Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress--Vanessa Redgrave, Best Supporting Actor--Jason Robards.

Rankings Position

#141 Best Movies Based on a True Story

Awards: 1977: 3 Academy Awards: including Best Adapted Screenplay. 11 Nominations

1978: 4 BAFTA Awards: Best Movie, Actress (Fonda), Screenplay & Cinematography. 10 Nom.

1978: César Awards: Nominated Best Foreign Film

1977: 2 Golden Globes: Best Actress (Fonda) and Supp. Actress (Redgrave). 7 Nominations

1977: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Sup. Actor (Maximilian Schell). 2 Nom.

1977: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Supp. Actor, Supp. Actres & Cinematography

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"Sargent and Zinneman have amplified the story with solemn care, in good taste, and have come forth with a film that is both well-meaning and on the side of the angels but with the exception of a half-dozen scenes, lifeless."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"Fred Zinnemann’s superbly sensitive film explores the anti-Nazi awakening in the 1930s of writer Lillian Hellman (...) La producción de Richard Roth es atractiva y elegante"

Variety Staff: Variety
"Despite its gentility and evasiveness, Julia may have come much closer to the truth about Lillian Hellman on the strength of Jane Fonda's edgy, persuasive performance"

Gary Arnold: The Washington Post
"This movie's problems start with its point of view, and it never quite recovers from them"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Zinnemann blows it most of all in the Fonda-Redgrave relationship, and no credibility is given to Hellman's ferocious talent and dominant personality"

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