Meryl Streep In Julie & Julia
With its lighthearted humour this feel-good film has all the ingredients for a great date – just make sure you go out for dinner beforehand otherwise you’ll be ravenous by the end!
It’s a female-centric film about food, love and changing your life, with a star performance from Meryl Streep.
Julia Child (Meryl Streep) is a woman who altered the way America cooks, but in 1948 she was just an American woman living in France. Her husband’s job had brought them to Paris and with her indefatigable spirit, she yearned for something to do.
After becoming the first American woman to study at the famous Cordon Bleu cooking school, she popularised French cuisine in America by co-writing the English-language cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Half a century later in 2002, New Yorker Julie Powell (Amy Adams) was nearing 30, dissatisfied as a writer and facing an emotionally depleting day job working for an organisation devoted to rebuilding the World Trade Center site after 9/11. Spurred to change her life, she decided to cook her way through Child’s masterpiece – 524 recipes in 365 days – and chronicle her efforts in a blog. With the encouragement of her husband Eric who was happy to devour her cuisine, Julie began detailing the ups and downs of her time-consuming project.
This film takes the remarkable approach of adapting and interweaving these two women’s stories. The director-writer-producer Nora Ephron, who also wrote Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally, seamlessly melds these two remarkable true stories into a heart-warming comedy which proves you can change your life and achieve your dreams if you add a little bit of passion.
Julie & Julia is in cinemas now.
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