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Miss Julie
MGM / UA

Miss Julie reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 46 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.0 out of 10
based on 21 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for language and a scene of sexuality

Starring Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, and Maria Doyle Kennedy

Director Mike Figgis adapts the famous Strindberg play about Miss Julie (Burrows), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy count who has an affair with a servant (Mullan).


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Helen Cooper
August Strindberg (play Fröken Julie)
 
DIRECTED BY: Mike Figgis  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 30, 2000 
Video: May 30, 2000 
Theatrical: December 10, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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87
Mr. Showbiz F.X. Feeney
Though modest in scale, this romantic gem constitutes yet another superb leap in the evolution of Figgis' career.
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75
Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers
Fiery but turgid adaptation of the 1890 August Strindberg play.
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75
USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis.
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75
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Effectively cast and shot with exciting immediacy.
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75
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Intense, erotic and willful.
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75
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Figgis's film doesn't match its reach.
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70
TV Guide Ken Fox
A torrid and surprisingly cinematic chamber piece.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Figgis never frees the play enough from the stage to fill the screen.
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50
The New York Times Stephen Holden
The dialogue may be crisply idiomatic, but there's finally nothing realistic about the speed with which the characters hurtle through their mood swings and power plays.
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50
Film.com Henry Cabot Beck
Using current hand-held camera technology to ape the political and esthetic sensibility of the 1960s.
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50
LA Weekly John Patterson
A solidly filmed great play.
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50
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A brutally claustrophobic battle of wits and will, whose cruel nature ultimately seems to turn on the audience.
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50
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Figgis remains a compelling storyteller, holding you with the intensity of his vision and his mastery of nuance.
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50
Newsweek Andrea C. Basora
It does justice to its source material -- and that may be the problem.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
An arid, uninvolving film that suffers from Burrows' miscasting as the vain Julie.
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50
Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
His [Director Mike Figgis's] techniques do make the film at least watchable.
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40
Washington Post Desson Thomson
Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic
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38
New York Post Lou Lumenick
This intense psycho-sexual drama doesn't easily lend itself to the camera.
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25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
As dreary an hour-and-a-half as you could ever want to spend at the movies.
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20
Village Voice Amy Taubin
Figgis's frenetic and grossly self-aggrandizing adaption of Strindberg's worse-for-wear two-hander about the battle between the sexes and the classes.
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10
Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
A strong contender for Worst Picture of All Time.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Alan J. gave it a9:
One of the best films I've ever seen. It's visually compelling, intense and superbly acted. An overwhelming directoral success!

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