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Miss Julie
MGM / UA
FILM:
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
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Helen Cooper
August Strindberg (play Fröken Julie)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Mike Figgis
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 30, 2000
Video: May 30, 2000
Theatrical: December 10, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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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.

75
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
Fiery but turgid adaptation of the 1890 August Strindberg play.

75
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
August Strindberg's psychological drama of erotic class conflict gets a bracing, claustrophobic workout from director Mike Figgis.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Effectively cast and shot with exciting immediacy.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Intense, erotic and willful.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Figgis's film doesn't match its reach.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A torrid and surprisingly cinematic chamber piece.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Figgis never frees the play enough from the stage to fill the screen.

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.

50
Film.com
Henry Cabot Beck
Using current hand-held camera technology to ape the political and esthetic sensibility of the 1960s.

50
LA Weekly
John Patterson
A solidly filmed great play.

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.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Figgis remains a compelling storyteller, holding you with the intensity of his vision and his mastery of nuance.

50
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
It does justice to its source material -- and that may be the problem.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
An arid, uninvolving film that suffers from Burrows' miscasting as the vain Julie.

50
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
His [Director Mike Figgis's] techniques do make the film at least watchable.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
This intense psycho-sexual drama doesn't easily lend itself to the camera.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
As dreary an hour-and-a-half as you could ever want to spend at the movies.

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.

10
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
A strong contender for Worst Picture of All Time.


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