Julia

Julia (2008)

  • 74% of critics liked it
    (54 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (17,032 ratings)

Tilda Swinton stars in director Erick Zonca's drama about a 40-year-old alcoholic who, in a rare moment of sobriety, sees where her life is headed and makes one last-ditch attempt to steer herself away from the disastrous path that she has been locked on for as far back as she can remember.… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Aude Py, Erick Zonca
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
May 8, 2009 Wide
Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

    Charles Bukowski would have loved this foul-mouthed, fiery, reckless woman. Against all odds and common sense, you will, too.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    In a sense, it goes to all the places a sensitive character study might have gone, but more dramatically, convincingly and vividly.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    A nerve-wracking thriller with a twisty plot and startling realism.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    This is Zonca's second feature. His first, The Dreamlife of Angels, was extraordinary. Rent that one instead.

  • Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

    We never get a good look at her demons, just the havoc they wreak.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Emil K


    Julia is a story about a woman in a freefall. She is alcoholic, desperate and completely out of control. Tilda Swinton is in a performance of a lifetime here and pulls out equally effective performance as she did in fantastic I Am Love. She puts her everything to play title character… More

  • Universal D


    Excellent performances buoy this seat-of-your-pants day-in-the-life of an lying, manipulative, alcoholic never was almost at the end of the line and fully aware of it. The story, though, like a drunk at the end of the night, does some mindless veering around ...

  • Bruce B


    This film is put out by Magnolia Home Ent. Julia is an alcoholic who meets a women who lives across from her that want's Julia to kidnap her son from his grandfather for $50,000 dollars. Julia does everything wrong. After winding up in Mexico, the child she kidnaps is kidnap by… More

  • Robert C


    What a performance! Tilda Swinton really "knocks it out of the park" here as the tragic Julia. I wish I could say that alcoholism was her only problem, but by the end of this film I was convinced that her "issues" ran much deeper and that and that the booze was… More

  • Randy T


    I'll admit, I've done some pretty stupid things in the haze of a drunken stupor. I went for a walk in my underwear. I climbed a four story water tower to paint 'class of 1980'. I even woke up in the middle of a cemetery with a wreath around my neck that said… More

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