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Miss Julie
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Helen Cooper
August Strindberg (play Fröken Julie)
Directed by: Mike Figgis
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 10, 1999
DVD: May 30, 2000
Running Time: 103 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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).
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Mr. Showbiz F.X. Feeney
Though modest in scale, this romantic gem constitutes yet another superb leap in the evolution of Figgis' career.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers
Fiery but turgid adaptation of the 1890 August Strindberg play.
Read Full Review >USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Figgis never frees the play enough from the stage to fill the screen.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Film.com Henry Cabot Beck
Using current hand-held camera technology to ape the political and esthetic sensibility of the 1960s.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A brutally claustrophobic battle of wits and will, whose cruel nature ultimately seems to turn on the audience.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Figgis remains a compelling storyteller, holding you with the intensity of his vision and his mastery of nuance.
Read Full Review >Newsweek Andrea C. Basora
It does justice to its source material -- and that may be the problem.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
An arid, uninvolving film that suffers from Burrows' miscasting as the vain Julie.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
His [Director Mike Figgis's] techniques do make the film at least watchable.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
This intense psycho-sexual drama doesn't easily lend itself to the camera.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
As dreary an hour-and-a-half as you could ever want to spend at the movies.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
A strong contender for Worst Picture of All Time.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 3 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!
