Anita Björk, Heathcote Williams, Maria Doyle Kennedy

It is a midsummer's eve and the old Old Count departs his estate to celebrate elsewhere. He leaves his beautiful daughter Julie, the last in the long line of his noble family. Miss Julie is despondent...( read more  read more... ) after the breaking off of her engagement to be married. She dances and drinks with the servants who certainly do not accept her as one of their own. A little drunk, she finds herself alone in the kitchen with Jean, her father's foorman. Jean is a strange man--handsome and anarchistic, resentful of the class system but greedy to rise to the top. For many years, he has watched and desired the young Miss Julie. They carry on drinking and become involved in an intense and revealing conversation which draws them together as the night goes on. By this late hour Miss Julie has begun to show signs of her deep depression and sometimes unbalanced state of mind. Jean sees her weaknesses and exploits them, humiliating her and pushing her towards the self-destruction that she has been hinting at all evening.

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R, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Alf Sjöberg, Mike Figgis

Release Date: December 10, 1999

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DVD Release Date: May 30, 2000

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  • July 14, 2007
    Mike Figgis' stage play translated artistically to the screen. It's a nicely lit historical manor; most of the action is in the kitchen, where the grown daughter of the house Miss Julie (Saffron Burrows) has a steamy kitchen affair with John, the footman of the estate (Peter Mull...( read more)en). It's engaging drama and tragedy. I like the look of the whole piece. Things don't turn out so well because of the class distinctions of the lovers. It has some striking scenes, like the servants playful mocking of the affair. I hated the ending they showed us, it was somewhat unexpected, but everything built up to it.
  • June 25, 2008
    An interesting movie.
  • May 20, 2009
    Heavyweight stuff but well worth the concentration required. Gets more and more absorbing.
  • February 1, 2009
    Theatre History 2 had never been this fun we keep on watching movies and relate it to economic and social conditions of the time. I've read Miss Julie and I was biased because of Strindberg's Egotistically sublime interpretation of this misogynists place. Watching on film, ther...( read more)e is definitely a plain departure because the scenes are more straightforward and more modern than it should. I mean the word "fuck" is not in the script and the sex scene was not scene on stage of course. Because it is a film the director has more privilege to make this more from the notion of naturalism. Every minute detail is done, which is what every naturalistic or realistic should. In a way, i guess strindberg would be happy with those close to reality version of his play. The play talks about the signs of its times. Industrialization, equality, human rights, the decay of the burgeousies and i guess the darwinian struggle to survive whether it be gender or class.
  • November 15, 2007
    good personality and work done
  • May 15, 2007
    I've read the play, and seing 'Miss Julie' on screen just made the whole experience more spine tingling..
  • May 13, 2007
    I've done a scene from this and read the play and it's WAY intense and advanced for a piece written in the 1880s. I hope the film is as intense as the play.
  • April 7, 2007
    I will watch this 1 just 4 the girls lips!! hahahaha
  • March 9, 2007
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  • March 8, 2007
    Watched this movie in class (yes, in university we watch movies in class). It's a good adaptation of the August Strindberg play but, keep in mind that it still sounds like the dialogue of a play. If you don't like play dialogue or movies that take place in limited areas, then s...( read more)kip this one. If you are familiar with the original play on which this is based, then this is worth checking out.

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